Providing accounts of how the social identities of men and women, the context of displacement and the experience or manifestation of violence interact, this collection offers analyses and case studies to illustrate how gender relations are affected by displacement, encampment and return. Contents: Gender, Violence, Refugees. An Introduction / Susanne Buckley-Zistel and Ulrike Krause: 1. UNHCR Policy on Refugee Women: A 25-Year Retrospective / Susan F. Martin: 2. Victims of Chaos and Subaltern Sexualities? Some Reflections on Common Assumptions about Displacement and the Prevalence of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence / Simon Turner: 3. Refugees, Global Governance and the Local Politics of Violence against Women / Elisabeth Olivius: 4. ‘Solidarity’ and ‘Gender Equality’ as a Discourse of Violence in Sweden: Exclusion of Refugees by the Decent Citizen / Emma Mc Cluskey: 5. Spatializing Inequalities: The Situation of Women in Refugee Centres in Germany / Melanie Hartmann: 6. ‘Faithing’ Gender and Responses to Violence in Refugee Communities: Insights from the Sahrawi Refugee Camps and the Democratic Republic of Congo / Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Chloé Lewis and Georgia Cole: 7. Formidable Intersections: Forced Migration, Gender and Livelihoods / Dale Buscher: 8. Escaping Conflicts and Being Safe? Post-conflict Refugee Camps and the Continuum of Violence / Ulrike Krause: 9. Lost Boys, Invisible Girls: Children, Gendered Violence in Wartime and Displacement in South Sudan / Marisa O. Ensor: 10. Military Recruitment of Sudanese Refugee Men in Uganda: a Tale of National Patronage and International Failure / Maja Janmyr: 11. Gender, Violence, and Deportation: Angola’s Forced Return of Congolese Migrant Workers / Alexander Betts: 12. The Romance of Return: Post-exile Lives and Interpersonal Violence Over Land in Burundi / Barbra Lukunka
The twelve essays in this publication present a continuum of cases where the state enables violence against women - from state-sponsored torture to lax prosecution of sexual assault. Some contributors uncover buried histories of state violence against women throughout the twentieth century, in locations as diverse as Ireland, Indonesia, and Guatemala. Others spotlight ongoing struggles to define the state’s role in preventing gendered violence, from domestic abuse policies in the Russian Federation to anti-trafficking laws in the United States.