Sites of vulnerability for refugees and migrants: Seeking safety, finding terror - Refugee women and girls at heightened risk of rape and sexual violence

Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Bartolomei, L
dc.date.accessioned	2010-05-26T01:15:19Z
dc.date.accessioned	2012-12-15T03:12:40Z
dc.date.available	2010-05-26T01:15:19Z
dc.date.available	2012-12-15T03:12:40Z
dc.date.issued	2010-05-19
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19867
dc.description	Linda Bartolomei is from the Centre for Refugee Research at UNSW	en
dc.description.abstract	Refugee woman and girls face risks of rape and sexual violence not only during the height of armed conflict but at every stage of the refugee journey. Women and girls are routinely raped by border guards as they try to cross international borders and in detention and urban settings in countries of asylum. Sadly for many women at risk these dangers and human rights abuses continue in so called sites of safety including in refugee camps and in countries of resettlement. Since February 2002 Linda has undertaken research with refugee women in camps and urban areas in East and North Africa, India, Thailand, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in order to better understand the extent and impact of this problem and to work with refugee women and UNHCR staff to find solutions. She will discuss the the multiple sites in which refugee women and girls experience rape and sexual violence and the compounding impacts of multiple experiences of abuse including social exclusion, babies of rape. She will also explore the way in which shame, stigma, social exclusion, xenophobia, racial and cultural stereotyping can intersect to increase women and girls risks of further incidents of rape and sexual violence.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	UTS Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Seminar Series 2010;3
dc.relation.replaces	http://hdl.handle.net/2100/1080
dc.subject	migration	en
dc.subject	women	en
dc.subject	human rights	en
dc.subject	advocacy	en
dc.title	Sites of vulnerability for refugees and migrants: Seeking safety, finding terror - Refugee women and girls at heightened risk of rape and sexual violence	en
dc.type	Recording, oral	en
utslib.copyright.status	open_access

Abstract:

Refugee woman and girls face risks of rape and sexual violence not only during the height of armed conflict but at every stage of the refugee journey. Women and girls are routinely raped by border guards as they try to cross international borders and in detention and urban settings in countries of asylum. Sadly for many women at risk these dangers and human rights abuses continue in so called sites of safety including in refugee camps and in countries of resettlement. Since February 2002 Linda has undertaken research with refugee women in camps and urban areas in East and North Africa, India, Thailand, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in order to better understand the extent and impact of this problem and to work with refugee women and UNHCR staff to find solutions. She will discuss the the multiple sites in which refugee women and girls experience rape and sexual violence and the compounding impacts of multiple experiences of abuse including social exclusion, babies of rape. She will also explore the way in which shame, stigma, social exclusion, xenophobia, racial and cultural stereotyping can intersect to increase women and girls risks of further incidents of rape and sexual violence.

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