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Vandeviver, Nicolas

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“…In this regard, Edward Saïd’s thesis on Orientalism (1978) offers a particularly apposite standpoint to analyse the unequal power relations between the ‘West’ and the ‘East’, the coloniser and the colonised, or – here – the adjudicator and the asylum seeker. Saïd, considered as the founder of postcolonial studies (Vandeviver, 2019), analyses how dominant narratives produced by European scholars in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries present the West as a civilised and ordered place, and the East as an exotic, barbaric, chaotic space (Saïd, 1978/2014, pp. 155–156).…”

Section: ‘Brown’ Feminism Decoloniality and International Refugee Lawmentioning

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Epistemic Violence and Colonial Legacies in the Representation of Refugee Women: Contesting Narratives of Vulnerability and Victimhood

Benslama-Dabdoub

2024

International Journal of Law in Context

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The traditional drafting and subsequent implementation of international refugee law have been criticised for relying on a male-centric understanding of persecution. Whilst this framework has recently shifted to include a more gender-sensitive interpretation, I argue that this introduction of gender within refugee status determination has traditionally relied on narratives infused with gendered and racialised stereotypes. In particular, it relies on a ‘white saviour’ colonial narrative that perceives refugee women as vulnerable victims in need of saving. Drawing on a decolonial and critical epistemological analysis that includes both a race and gender dimension, I unpack the epistemic violence and hidden colonial legacies in the representation of refugee women in case-law. Ultimately, this article concludes with a call for reframing the legal narrative around refugee women by approaching them as political actors rather than oppressed and vulnerable subjects.

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Section: ‘Brown’ Feminism Decoloniality and International Refugee Lawmentioning

confidence: 99%

Epistemic Violence and Colonial Legacies in the Representation of Refugee Women: Contesting Narratives of Vulnerability and Victimhood

Benslama-Dabdoub

2024

International Journal of Law in Context

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Epistemic Violence and Colonial Legacies in the Representation of Refugee Women: Contesting Narratives of Vulnerability and Victimhood

Epistemic Violence and Colonial Legacies in the Representation of Refugee Women: Contesting Narratives of Vulnerability and Victimhood

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