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Published in: 50.50Dangerous journeys: violence against women migrants in Turkey
Syrian women migrants in Turkey face many forms of violence - sexual harassment, forced and early marriage, polygamy...
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Published in: 50.50Grunwick 40 years on: lessons from the Asian women strikers
The women who led the Grunwick dispute challenged not just the stereotypes of Asian women within British society,...
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Published in: 50.50Invisible fathers of immigration detention in the UK
The British state has regulated relationships between its citizens and certain foreigners since at least the...
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Published in: 50.50Repeal the Eighth: putting intersectionality into practice
A long-established conservative media frames the terms of abortion politics in Ireland. The pro-choice activism...
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Published in: 50.50The arts and humanities: tackling the challenges of mass displacement
When we let people die rather than provide safety, we face not a ‘refugee crisis’ but a crisis of values. The arts...
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Published in: 50.50Refugee women in the UK: Pushing a stone into the sea
From personal experience I know that arrival in the UK for asylum seekers does not signal safety, but reform is a...
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Published in: 50.50Fleeing Europe?
Europe’s dire politics of deterrence is leaving people in a social and legal limbo while others consider escaping...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySophie's journey: three countries, three stories, same abuse
Female migrant labourers face discrimination and marginalisation all over the world. Sophie’s stories from Dubai,...
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Published in: 50.50I shall leave as my city turns to dust: Queens of Syria and women in war
In ‘Queens of Syria’, ancient Greek tales of loss and dislocation in conflict echo through to the contemporary...
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Published in: 50.50We feel that we found our self after we lost it in the war
My home Syria is a beautiful place, but war took it from us. As refugees in Amman, rehearsing and performing...
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Published in: 50.50Transnational marriage abandonment: A new form of violence against women?
Transnational marriage abandonment lies at the intersect of immigration and patriarchal control, allowing abusers...
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Published in: 50.50Georgian migrant mothers: never to return home?
Older women migrants are locked into perpetual domestic work in New York, endlessly deferring retirement and...
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Published in: 50.50Doing business at the border: abuse, complicity and legality
As abuses in Australia’s detention centres become increasingly stark, there are growing calls for the boycott of a...
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Published in: 50.50UN CSW: ending impunity for gender-based crimes against women refugees
The CSW has called on UN member states to "address sexual and gender-based violence as an integral and prioritized...
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Published in: 50.50Seeking liberation, seeking comfort: women migrants in the UK
The UK Home Office continues to indefinitely detain people who have committed no crime, including pregnant women....
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Published in: 50.50Why aren't European feminists arguing against the anti-immigrant right?
European feminists struggle to navigate a contentious cultural debate as political elites, Pegida and the...
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Published in: 50.50The human search for a home
Stories from the Macedonian refugee camps in Gevgelija bordering Greece, and Tabanovce bordering Serbia, tell of...
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Published in: 50.50Gender lenses and refugee assistance
Gender matters greatly in any form of third party assistance. Refugee camps are not sanctuaries from violence if...
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Published in: 50.50When does the violation of women's bodies become a "red line"?
If people divide their understanding of militarized violence into normal and not normal, acceptable and not...
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Published in: 50.50COP21: overarching narratives, real lives
“There are overarching narratives, and then there are people just trying to live their lives within them.” Does...