Agency in multiple temporalities: Being Syrian women, becoming widows and refugees, remaining pious

Ozkaleli, Umut

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2021.102538

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“…We consider the desire to leave Lebanon in search of stability elsewhere as a proxy for the current sense of integration and comfort. This finding is consistent with previous studies which have shown that perceptions of displacement and the new cultural contexts people find themselves in may impact their ability to cope with their new situations (Lenette, 2014; Ozkaleli, 2021). It is understandable that women who experience lower levels of satisfaction with their place of displacement and hope to find asylum elsewhere may experience higher levels of depression.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

Predictors of depression among Syrian refugee women: A socio-culturally relevant analysis

Hosseini

Bakdash

Ahmad

et al. 2023

Int J Soc Psychiatry

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Objectives: Syrian refugee women have faced myriad adversities as they have navigated the realities of war, increasing the risk for mental health concerns such as depressive symptomatology. This study explores the nuances of relevant sociocultural factors that can contribute to depressive symptomatology among widowed Syrian refugee women who live in an institutionalized care setting. We explored the impact of past trauma exposure, perceived independence, and a desire to leave the current place of displacement and the interplay between them. Methods: The PCRF Traumatic Events Questionnaire and Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) were administered to 57 Syrian refugee women in Lebanon ( Mage = 37; M number of children = 3) to measure levels of trauma exposure and depressive symptoms, respectively. Perceived independence and a desire to leave their current place of residence were measured using 1-item measures. Results: Using hierarchical regression models, past trauma exposure ( B = 1.51, p = .002) and perceived independence ( B = 0.33, p = .04) significantly predicted depressive symptoms. A desire to travel ( B = 0.84, p = .07) marginally predicted depressive symptoms. Past trauma exposure attenuated the impact of perceived independence on depressive symptoms such that at lower levels of past trauma exposure, higher perceptions of independence predicted higher depression ( simple slope = 0.29, t = 2.13, p = .05), while at higher levels of past trauma higher perceptions of independence predicted lower depressive symptoms ( simple slope = -0.16, t = -2.21, p = .04). Trauma exposure did not moderate the impact of a desire to leave on depression, but age did. Conclusion: These findings suggest that sociocultural factors may influence women’s experiences with depressive symptoms differently, and this heterogeneity must be accounted for when treatment programs are proposed. Further, Syrian refugee women who have lost primary family members may pose different profiles of depressive symptoms than other groups of women.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Predictors of depression among Syrian refugee women: A socio-culturally relevant analysis

Hosseini

Bakdash

Ahmad

et al. 2023

Int J Soc Psychiatry

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“…Nevertheless, bakwit power offers us with new ways of understanding the agency of displaced individuals outside of active and independent resistance against structural conditions, 74 and how agency is conceived through careful considerations of the past, present, and future. 75…”

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confidence: 99%

Looking for Safe Haven in a City Torn Apart by War: Narratives of agency from internally displaced persons in the southern Philippines

Quintero

2024

ATR

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In this paper, I interrogate the dominant representation of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in humanitarian discourse as helpless victims in need of rescue. Based on the stories of IDP women and gender diverse individuals in the Philippines affected by the Zamboanga City siege in 2013, I illustrate how they exercised agency to shape their trajectories of displacement. The capacity of Filipino IDPs to contend with their displacement is shaped by their power as bakwit (evacuees), and by their class and ethnoreligious identities. While Christian Filipino IDPs had access to material, financial, and social resources, allowing them to engage in temporary migration after displacement, Muslim Filipino IDPs with limited access to these same resources found themselves in unwanted mobility and prolonged situations of displacement. Yet, Muslim Filipino IDPs do not lack agency, as they continue to actively and consciously forge new strategies to regain a sense of home in extended exile. Ultimately, while identifying bakwit power as a useful conceptual tool to make legible how IDPs exercised control at different stages of their displacement, embracing such a framework should not negate the long history of political violence in the region that continues to keep some people on the move.

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“…On the other hand, changes in the social environment might motivate some individuals to reinterpret past habits and develop new modes of adaptation to different situations (Ozkaleli, 2021). Refai et al (2018) demonstrated that through destabilized habitus emerged a new disposition, referred to as the disposition of survivability .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Ozkaleli (2021) also drew on Bourdieu’s framework to explore the experiences of religious women refugees from Syria. That study revealed that through the process of displacement, participants’ reinterpretation of the past and forming a new vision of a future shaped their interpretation of their new world, informing their actions and choices.…”

Section: Selected Theoretical Framework and Conceptsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Refugees Health Experiences in Host Countries: Three Theoretical Perspectives

Gepshtein,

Lee,

Bounds

et al. 2024

Clin Nurs Res

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Healthcare providers working with forcefully displaced populations often have limited knowledge and skills regarding the care of this population. The reasons are twofold. First, most of the research on refugee health does not consider refugees’ adaptive skills, diversity of experiences, and daily life context. Second, healthcare providers’ knowledge of how the sociopolitical environment shapes health research and practice in the context of refugee care is often limited. This work aims to specify gaps in refugee healthcare and research by applying a relational approach to three theoretical frameworks. The relational approach supports a pragmatic, in-depth understanding of healthcare practices by shifting the focus of the inquiry from description of social structures toward exploration of processes and relations that propagate and sustain such structures. The focus is on the threefold interaction between refugees, healthcare providers, and healthcare institutions. The three theoretical frameworks are as follows: First, using concepts from the Theory of Practice by Bourdieu, we examine how gaps in care can result from a mismatch between the dispositions and skills that refugees develop through life experience and the cultural–professional practices of healthcare providers in host countries. Second, the Cultural Determinants of Help Seeking by Saint Arnault is applied to posit that gaps in care can result from differences in the meanings that healthcare providers and refugees assign to their interactions. Finally, we use the concept of Othering as described in nursing by Canales to explain how power dynamics inherent in the interaction between refugees and healthcare systems can affect refugee healthcare and research. This relational approach helps to elucidate some of the culture-bound mechanisms of health maintenance and help-seeking and brings attention to the sociopolitical context that shapes the way we care to refugees.

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Agency in multiple temporalities: Being Syrian women, becoming widows and refugees, remaining pious

Cited by 12 publications

References 32 publications

Predictors of depression among Syrian refugee women: A socio-culturally relevant analysis

Predictors of depression among Syrian refugee women: A socio-culturally relevant analysis

Looking for Safe Haven in a City Torn Apart by War: Narratives of agency from internally displaced persons in the southern Philippines

Understanding Refugees Health Experiences in Host Countries: Three Theoretical Perspectives

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