Not Born a Refugee Woman: Contesting Identities, Rethinking Practices

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Acknowledgements Introduction Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed, Nazilla Khanlou and Helene Moussa SECTION I: RECONCEPTUALIZING IDENTITIES Chapter 1. A Dialogical Approach to Identity: Implications for Refugee Women Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed Chapter 2. The Relations of Home, Security and Transversal Feminism: Refugee Women Reclaiming their Identities Wenona Giles Chapter 3. Always Natasha: The Transnational Sex Trafficking of Women Victor Malarek and Sarah Wayland Chapter 4. Reconstituting the Subject: Feminist Politics of Humanitarian Assistance Jennyfer Hyndman and Malathi De Alwis SECTION II: CHALLENGING METHODOLOGIES: CHALLENGING THE RESEARCHER Chapter 5. Befriending Refugee Women: Refracted Knowledge and Shifting Viewpoints Adrienne Chambon Chapter 6. Days You Remember: Japanese Canadian Women and The Violence of Internment Pamela Sugiman Chapter 7. War, Diaspora, Learning, and Women's Standpoint Rachel Gorman Chapter 8. Being A Writer on Women, Violence, and War Madeleine Gagnon SECTION III: RETHINKING PRACTICES: CREATING SPACES FOR AGENCY Chapter 9. The Representation of Refugee Women in our Research and Practice Maryann Loughry Chapter 10. Refugee Youth, and Identity: On the Margins of Mental Health Promotion Nazilla Khanlou and Sepali Guruge Chapter 11. Pray God and Keep Walking: Religion, Gender, Identity and Refugee Women Elzbieta Gozdziak Chapter 12. We Want to Talk, They Give Us Pills: Identity and Mental Health of Refugee Women from Sudan Lynda Hayward, Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed, Karen Trollope and Jenny Ploeg SECTION IV: REVIEWING POLICY: TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE RIGHTS OF REFUGEE WOMEN Chapter 13. Protecting Refugee Women: UNHCR and the Equity Challenge Judith Kumin Chapter 14. Social Protection of Refugee Women: Paradoxes, Tensions, and Directions Patricia M. Daenzer Chapter 15. The Factor in Refugee Determination and the Effect of Gender Guidelines Geradline Sadoway Chapter 16. Pursuing National Responsibility in a Post 9/11 World: Seeking Asylum in Canada From Persecution Sherene Razack and Carmela Murdocca Notes on Contributors References Index