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Gendering Violence and Precarity in Forced Migration: Asylum Seeking Women in the Eastern Mediterranean (WASEM)

Workshop on Asylum Regimes, Bordering Practices and Asylum Seekers' Experiences

• Program: Workshop on Asylum Regimes, Bordering Practices and Asylum Seekers' Experiences
• Evie Tastsoglou, WASEM Project Introduction
• Jane Freedman, The Hidden Violence of Asylum: How European Asylum Systems Create Gendered and Racialized Forms of Violence Against Women
• Ruben Zaiotti, Asylum in Pandemic Times: Europe and the Reconfiguration of Externalized Border Controls
• Lyubov Zhyznomirska, Fleeing the Russia-Ukraine War of 2022: Paying Attention to Vulnerable Populations
• Evie Tastsoglou, Gender and the Continuum of Violence in Forced Migration: Asylum-Seeking Women in the Eastern Mediterranean
• Tatjana Takseva, Intersectional Feminist Approaches to Addressing Multilevel Vulnerability and Protection in Survivors of Sexualized and Gender-based Violence
• Catherine Bruce, A Ray of Hope in an Inhospitable Sea: Regulation, Policy and the Resettlement of Refugee Survivors of Sexual and Gender-based Violence from Greece to Canada
• Sandy Petrinioti, “Everyone wants to protect their borders. Us refugees, where are we supposed to go?” Negotiating forced migration between overlapping asylum and border regimes: Women asylum seekers in the Eastern Mediterranean
• Mohita Bhatia, Performative Practices: Nations, Borders and Refugees
• Saja Al Zoubi, The Impact of Covid 19 on Precarious Livelihoods and Gender-Based Violence: Syrian Refugee Women in Lebanon
• Chara Karagiannopoulou, Intersectional Discriminations and ‘Lessened’ Citizenship: Experiences of Asylum-Seeking Women in a European Borderland
• Christina Clark-Kazak, “Why Care Now” in Forced Migration Research? The Transformation Potential of a Radical Feminist Ethics of Care
• Julie Chamagne, Halifax Refugee Clinic
• Kathryn Bates-Khan, Gender-based Violence Settlement Sector Strategy: Building Capacity & Collaboration

The International Workshop on Asylum Regimes, Bordering Practices and Asylum Seekers’ Experiences: Gendering Violence and Precarity in Forced Migration, held at Saint Mary's University, Halifax from 5th - 6th May 2022, was organised by the WASEM Project (“Gendering Violence and Precarity in Forced Migration: Asylum Seeking Women in the Eastern Mediterranean”) and Jean Monnet European Union Centre of Excellence at Dalhousie University.  

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Website content editing: Evangelia Tastsoglou, Sandy Petrinioti
Website content formatting: Larissa Sweeney, Loretta Baidoo
Workshop organisational managers: Madeleine Coffen-Smout, Serperi Sevgur
Technology and operations assistants: Camila Reis, Larissa Sweeney, Meylin Zink Yi
Student volunteers (DAL and SMU): Alice Craft, Kaylie Dolan, Stanley Egenti, Joe Fitkowski, Linglan Yang
Financial assistance: the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) through the WASEM project's SSHRC Insight Development Grant; the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union through the JMEUCE; and Saint Mary's University.

Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research

The Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research (MMFC) undertakes activities that contribute broadly to the elimination of family violence from society. They provide an Atlantic Canadian perspective on research in the field of family violence and actively seek the participation of researchers from across the country and around the world.

Director of the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research, Dr. Cathy Holtmann, is a Co-Investigator of the GBV-MIG Canada Research Program team.

For more information, visit the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research website.