Gender, Securitization and Transit: Refugee Women and the Journey to the EU

Gerard, Alison; Pickering, Sharon

doi:10.1093/jrs/fet019

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“…Refugees/IDP obviously are interested to reduce such risks. Higher security however often comes at a cost of lower mobility (Gerard and Pickering 2013). Thus, each step potentially requires calculations and re-calculations regarding direction, pace, and other decisions and tradeoffs along the journey.…”

Section: Journeymentioning

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The Global Refugee Crisis: Pathway for a More Humanitarian Solution

Shultz

Barrios

Красников

et al. 2020

Journal of Macromarketing

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The global refugee crisis reveals refugees and other forcibly displaced persons (FDP) are uniquely vulnerable consumers on a dynamic pathway precipitated by trigger events that have disrupted or fractured marketing systems requisite for safety and well-being, resulting in dangerous journeys to temporary or permanent settlements. The Syrian Conflict is introduced to contextualize the challenges along the pathway and to show that a more Humanitarian Marketing System, spanning time, space and other systems, brings opportunities for governments, NGOs and businesses to cooperate and to provide FDP with resources, which enhance connectedness, reduce vulnerabilities and suffering, illuminate good practices and enable FDP to flourish when resettled. The authors discuss research-opportunities to facilitate further understanding, to develop and repair marketing systems, and to enhance the well-being of FDP and other stakeholders of the crisis.

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Section: Journeymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Global Refugee Crisis: Pathway for a More Humanitarian Solution

Shultz

Barrios

Красников

et al. 2020

Journal of Macromarketing

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“…Men and women are dissimilarly affected by, and may cope differently with, risks encountered during the refugee journey (Gerard and Pickering 2013). Women migrants, for instance, face an increased risk of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), as well as other forms of abuse while fleeing -both en route and in transit (Vu et al 2014;Parker 2015;Yasmine and Moughalian 2016;Bosworth et al 2017;Grotti et al 2018).…”

Section: Gender Parenthood and Safetymentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender, Parenthood and Feelings of Safety in Greek Refugee Centres

Bjørneseth

Smidt

Stachowski

2019

Journal of Refugee Studies

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Forced migration and displacement are often associated with increased exposure to various risks that negatively affect personal safety. While experiences of displaced populations are heterogeneous, women have been shown to be exposed to intersecting factors, such as vulnerability to gender-based violence, restricting cultural norms and discrimination. Being a mother—or at least responsible for the care of a child—while en route stands as another marginalizing factor. This article’s point of departure is the so-called European ‘refugee crisis’ that peaked in 2015 and examines the effects of gender and family on the experience of safety among refugees in six refugee centres in Greece. We explore how intersecting issues such as gender roles and being responsible for children impact individuals’ feelings of safety. Using descriptive statistics and regression analyses of survey data on 367 migrants in six Greek refugee centres, we find that female migrants are more likely to feel unsafe compared to males. However, our results indicate that gender differences in feelings of safety are minimal for those without children. While having children affects both genders’ feeling of safety, the effect is much greater for women than for men. Our conclusion is that dissimilar experiences of safety along gender dimension are conditioned by norms and obligations inscribed in social roles of parents and care-givers.

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“…Research on the nexus between everyday security, gender-based violence and irregular migration has shown that policy drivers have insufficiently taken into account the lived realities of women irregular migrants (Gerard and Pickering 2013;Pickering 2011). Moreover, policy drivers have too often offered insufficiently calibrated accounts of women's role in decision-making and information consumption in transit.…”

Section: Onward Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, policy drivers have too often offered insufficiently calibrated accounts of women's role in decision-making and information consumption in transit. Recent research focused on Europe, for example, indicates that gender-related violence and harm are often exacerbated through the structural contradictions produced by policy (Gerard & Pickering 2013;Pickering 2011). Refugee protection policy competes against policies aimed at the securitisation of migration and deterring people from making the journey to the European Union to seek asylum.…”

Section: Onward Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rohingya Women in Malaysia: Decision-Making and Information Sharing in the Course of Irregular Migration

2017

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The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), created in 1992 and directed by Professor Brigid Laffan, aims to develop inter-disciplinary and comparative research and to promote work on the major issues facing the process of integration and European society.The Centre is home to a large post-doctoral programme and hosts major research programmes and projects, and a range of working groups and ad hoc initiatives. The research agenda is organised around a set of core themes and is continuously evolving, reflecting the changing agenda of European integration and the expanding membership of the European Union. Most of these are also available on the RSCAS website: http://www.eui.eu/RSCAS/Publications/ The EUI and the RSCAS are not responsible for the opinion expressed by the author(s). The Global Governance Programme at the EUIThe Global Governance Programme is one of the flagship programmes of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute (EUI). It aims to: build a community of outstanding professors and scholars, produce high quality research and, engage with the world of practice through policy dialogue. At the Global Governance Programme, established and early career scholars research, write on and discuss, within and beyond academia, issues of global governance, focussing on four broad and interdisciplinary areas: European, Transnational and Global Governance; Global Economics; Europe in the World; and Cultural Pluralism.The Programme also aims to contribute to the fostering of present and future generations of policy and decision makers through its unique executive training programme, the Academy of Global Governance, where theory and "real world" experience meet. At the Academy, executives, policy makers, diplomats, officials, private sector professionals and academics, have the opportunity to meet, share views and debate with leading academics, top-level officials, heads of international organisations and senior executives, on topical issues relating to governance.For more information: http://globalgovernanceprogramme.eui.eu AbstractThis paper presents major findings of a project focused on the experiences of Rohingya women in Malaysia, categorised as 'irregular migrants'. Malaysia has become a key destination and country of transit for many Rohingya fleeing Myanmar. The paper presents and analyses the influences on decision-making; the role of family; information sources used and their trustworthiness and gendered violence. The fieldwork was conducted in late 2015, including 350 surveys and 35 in-depth interviews. The research findings reveal a range of factors that affect the lives of Rohingya women and their families before and during journeys, as well as in Malaysia. These factors affect planning for the future and decision for onward migration. The paper discusses the details of decision-making and information sharing during migration journeys and provides analysis of women's choices and the factors that condition decision-making. Given that onward journey...

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Gender, Securitization and Transit: Refugee Women and the Journey to the EU

Cited by 76 publications

References 24 publications

The Global Refugee Crisis: Pathway for a More Humanitarian Solution

The Global Refugee Crisis: Pathway for a More Humanitarian Solution

Gender, Parenthood and Feelings of Safety in Greek Refugee Centres

Rohingya Women in Malaysia: Decision-Making and Information Sharing in the Course of Irregular Migration

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