E Tastsoglou
Biographic Data
| ID | 55690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Tastsoglou |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Tastsoglou |
| SIGNATURE | TASTSOGLOU E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saint Mary's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6679-2747 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Vulnerabilities and Inequities: Challenges Experienced by Professionals Engaged with Migrant and Refugee Survivors of Gender-Based Violence in Canada
Migrant and refugee women are vulnerable to gender-based violence (GBV) at multiple points along the migratory pathway, including after they arrive in Canada. Their vulnerability in Canada is related to legal and policy frameworks to (im)migration, settlement and integration but also to the precarious nature of social services for migrant and refugee survivors of GBV. Drawing upon theorizing on intersectionality, vulnerability and precarity, this…
Tracing individual experiences to systemic challenges: The (re)production of GBV in migrant women’s experiences in Canada
This study examines the experiences of migrant women survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) in Canada, focusing on their processes of disclosing violence and seeking help. It explores a range of migration-related factors and circumstances that shape migrant women's responses to violence while also aiming to reveal how migration contexts determine system-and structural-level responses to GBV, which are then traced back to women's individual expe…
Gender-Based Violence in a Migration Context: Health Impacts and Barriers to Healthcare Access and Help Seeking for Migrant and Refugee Women in Canada
This article focuses on the health impacts of the gender-based violence (GBV) experienced by migrant and refugee women (MRW) survivors in their migration/settlement journeys in Canada, and their challenges in accessing healthcare. Adopting a feminist and intersectional lens, I draw upon qualitative in-depth interviews with 48 migrant women conducted between 2020 and 2022. GBV is a frequent experience in the migration and (re)settlement journey an…
Gender-based and intersectional violence in migration and refugee contexts: A contextual global approach
Gender-based violence is a major infringement of women's human rights, and an obstacle to sustainable development as set out in the Sustainable Development Goals. In this article, we explore both the processes and findings of our international comparative project on gender-based violence in migration contexts. Our research takes a feminist, intersectional, collaborative, and contextual approach to understand gender-based violence in the context o…
The continuum of gender-based violence experienced by migrant and refugee women in Canada: Perspectives from key informants
Little research has been done on conceptualizing gender-based violence (GBV) against immigrant and refugee women as a continuum of violence. The objective of the larger study was to understand gender-based violence in migration and analyze the ways in which discriminations and inequalities interact to increase vulnerability and decrease access to supports and services for some women. Using (a) the concept of continuum of [sexual] violence and (b)…
Gender and Asylum-Seeking in a European Borderland: Intersectional Discriminations and “Lessened” Citizenship
This paper presents a feminist analysis of the manifold and intertwined discriminations faced by asylumseeking women in a European “borderland”—specifically, Greece. It explores how these discriminations operate across law, policy, practice, and discourse, while highlighting the dynamic interplay of intersectional discriminations with citizenship rights and practices. Data were collected through 35 interviews with asylumseeking women. The analysi…
A Matter of National Dignity: Protection of Slaves and Southern Refugees in Canada, 1844-1869
Canada's humanitarian tradition has been a pole of attraction to new immigrants and refugees and a source of pride for Canadians. As part of an ongoing research project on changing representations of refugees and immigrants in Canadian mainstream newspapers, this research note focuses on two groups of refugees who came to Canada around the time of the American Civil War. We discovered the two historical extradition court cases of refugees who wer…
Middle Eastern Transnational Families and Ethnic Networks: A Story of Immigrant Mobilities to and from Atlantic Canada
Practicing Conformity, Resistance and Resilience to Gender-Based Violence: Women Asylum Seekers in the Eastern Mediterranean
In this paper, we use semi-structured interviews with 35 asylum-seeking women to elicit a narrative of their forced migration journey which included a stop in Turkey, a perilous sea crossing facilitated by smugglers and a stay in a European Union borderland, Greece. We explore their experiences with a focus on the adversities they faced, especially gender-based violence, woven in the broader violence of mobility under restrictive border and asylu…
Surviving Gender-Based Violence: A Social Ecological Approach to Migrant and Refugee Women's Resilience
Many migrant and refugee women (MRW) experience different forms of gender-based violence (GBV) along the migratory pathway. GBV is rooted in intersecting structures of domination and extends beyond individual experiences to include the failure of policies and practices to protect women. In this article, through the lenses of "key informants" (KIs), we explore how MRW express resilience to GBV in the face of intersecting structural inequalities th…
Twenty-First Century "New" Greek Transnational Migration to Canada
This article derives from a qualitative study of the “new” migration from Greece to Canada, resulting from a severe socioeconomic crisis in Greece. Starting from the migration narratives of 20 “new” Greek migrants in Halifax and Toronto, this research focuses on how the “new” migrants make and carry out the decision to leave and immigrate to Canada. A heuristic use and reconceptualized understanding of the classic “push-pull” model, in conjunctio…
The Gender-Based Violence and Precarity Nexus: Asylum-Seeking Women in the Eastern Mediterranean
This paper derives from a larger research on gender-based violence and precarity in the forced migration journeys of asylum-seeking women transiting through the Eastern Mediterranean route and arriving in Greece, in the tumultuous, second decade of the 21st century. In this paper we present the findings from the first phase of the research. We analyze and discuss the opinions and information gathered through semi-structured interviews with twenty…
(Re)Producing Gender: Refugee Advocacy and Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Refugee Narratives
The glaring absence of gender persecution as grounds for protection in the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees , the cornerstone of international refugee law, continues to impact current refugee claims driven by fear of sexual and gender-based violence. Applying a transnational, feminist and intersectional perspective, our study presents qualitative research on this particular form of violence in refugee claims. The lack of a stron…
Transnational, Feminist and Intersectional Perspectives on Immigrants and Refugees in Canada: An Introduction
Transnational, Feminist and Intersectional Perspectives on Immigrants and Refugees in Canada:An Introduction Evangelia Tastsoglou, Special Guest Editor (bio) Since the early 1990s, there has been a burgeoning scholarship of theoretical and empirical contributions to the transnationalism discourse. The global interconnectedness of states, regions, institutions, organizations, groups, individuals, and processes among them, captured by the concept o…
Gender and Care Relationships in Transnational Families: Implications for Citizenship and Belonging
In contrast to studies of transnational care-giving that focus on the Global South and transnational parenting, this article examines the care practices and relations of permanent residents and foreign born citizens in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, whose care encompasses broader kin ties and social networks across borders and generations. By exploring the nature, modalities, frequency, financial and well-being consequences of transnational care p…
The Contributions and Constraints of Contemporary Immigration and Citizenship: Commemorating Canada's 150 Years
The Contributions and Constraints of Contemporary Immigration and Citizenship: Commemorating Canada’s 150 Years Evangelia Tastsoglou, Special Guest Editor (bio) Although neither selected as representative of the field of Canadian ethnic studies, nor comprehensive, the articles in this special issue of Canadian Ethnic Studies/Études ethniques au Canada, commemorating Canada’s 150 years, do provide a good sense of the contemporary state of ethnic s…
Addressing domestic violence in Canada and the United States: The uneasy co-habitation of women and the state
Feminist sociologists and activists have drawn attention to how violence against women is linked to structural and cultural factors that subordinate women, mainly intersecting inequalities and limited rights. Mobilization by the Battered Women's and Anti-Violence Movements, media attention, legislation, and policy have increased awareness and support to address violence against women. However, activists and researchers have also critiqued the pro…
Interrogating gender, violence, and the state in national and transnational contexts: Framing the issues
In order to situate this monograph issue this introductory article starts with a brief, selective, and global overview of violence against women in diverse contexts, followed by the editors' own approach on violence against women and the state. Focusing on cross-cutting themes, the introduction presents and discusses the articles included in this monograph, demonstrating the role of the state in addressing sexual violence and domestic or intimate…
(En)Gendering Vulnerability: Immigrant Service Providers’ Perceptions of Needs, Policies, and Practices Related to Gender and Women Refugee Claimants in Atlantic Canada
As part of a multi-phased study exploring the experiences of refugee claimants in Atlantic Canada, this article focuses on the experiences and perceptions of immigrant service providers in relation to gender and women refugee claimants. Given the paucity of research on refugees in Atlantic Canada and on the particular perspectives of service providers, we have located this part of our research in the intersection of state policies and civil socie…
"Multiculturalism as Part of the Lived Experience of the "Second Generation: Forging Identities by Lebanese-Origin Youth in Halifax
This paper focuses on the process of identity negotiation and formation by Canadian-born youth of Lebanese descent in Halifax, a middle tier city in Atlantic Canada. If multiculturalism, as collective identity and normative framework for national identity building (Kymlicka 2004) involves a negotiation between "us, them and others" (Winter 2011), how does individual identity negotiation and formation for the Canadian born of Lebanese descent take…
Introduction: The Experiences of Second-Generation Canadian Youth
Introduction:The Experiences of Second-Generation Canadian Youth Evangelia Tastsoglou Research on the second generation is relatively recent, but growing quickly in Canada and internationally. This issue of Canadian Ethnic Studies/Études ethniques au Canada has its origins in a workshop held at the Tenth National Metropolis Conference, which was held in Halifax. In many ways it continues a conversation left unfinished in that session. The nine ar…
Negotiating Ethno-Cultural Identity: The Experience of Greek and Jewish Youth in Halifax
This paper focuses on the lived experiences of young people growing up Greek Canadian and Jewish Canadian in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It is based on data collected in a pilot study conducted with second-generation Greek and second-, third-, and fourth-generation Jewish youth in Halifax in 2004-05. Most of the existing research on the second generation and beyond lumps together the experiences of different ethnocultural groups. Perhaps even more impo…
Immigrant Women and Community Development in the Canadian Maritimes: Outsiders within
Evangelia Tastsoglou, Baukje Miedema, Immigrant Women and Community Development in the Canadian Maritimes: Outsiders within?, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Spring, 2003), pp. 203-234
Race and the Politics of Personal Relationships: Focus on Black Canadian Women
This article critically reviews the literature on racism (White and internalized Black) in the heterosexual relationships of Black women. In addition,it assesses the relevance of this literature to Canadian Black women,identifies the research gaps on the subject,and maps out an empirical agenda for research on Black Canadian heterosexual relationships,pr emised on an integrated feminist,antiracist,and classbased analytical perspective
Towards A Diversity Beyond Tolerance
On 7 February 1994, Maclean's magazine ran a story on one of Canada's most successful immigrants, British Columbia's lieutenant-governor, David See-Chai Lam. Mr. Lam, it is noted, has made considerable effort to increase understanding between Canadians and new arrivals by arguing that Canadians should celebrate rather than cultural diversity. He says tolerance is a slightly negative word ...it's like saying, 'You smell, but I can hold my breath.'…
Interrogating gender, violence, and the state in national and transnational contexts: Framing the issues
In order to situate this monograph issue this introductory article starts with a brief, selective, and global overview of violence against women in diverse contexts, followed by the editors' own approach on violence against women and the state. Focusing on cross-cutting themes, the introduction presents and discusses the articles included in this monograph, demonstrating the role of the state in addressing sexual violence and domestic or intimate…
Addressing domestic violence in Canada and the United States: The uneasy co-habitation of women and the state
Feminist sociologists and activists have drawn attention to how violence against women is linked to structural and cultural factors that subordinate women, mainly intersecting inequalities and limited rights. Mobilization by the Battered Women's and Anti-Violence Movements, media attention, legislation, and policy have increased awareness and support to address violence against women. However, activists and researchers have also critiqued the pro…
Towards A Diversity Beyond Tolerance
On 7 February 1994, Maclean's magazine ran a story on one of Canada's most successful immigrants, British Columbia's lieutenant-governor, David See-Chai Lam. Mr. Lam, it is noted, has made considerable effort to increase understanding between Canadians and new arrivals by arguing that Canadians should celebrate rather than cultural diversity. He says tolerance is a slightly negative word ...it's like saying, 'You smell, but I can hold my breath.'…
The continuum of gender-based violence experienced by migrant and refugee women in Canada: Perspectives from key informants
Little research has been done on conceptualizing gender-based violence (GBV) against immigrant and refugee women as a continuum of violence. The objective of the larger study was to understand gender-based violence in migration and analyze the ways in which discriminations and inequalities interact to increase vulnerability and decrease access to supports and services for some women. Using (a) the concept of continuum of [sexual] violence and (b)…
(En)Gendering Vulnerability: Immigrant Service Providers’ Perceptions of Needs, Policies, and Practices Related to Gender and Women Refugee Claimants in Atlantic Canada
As part of a multi-phased study exploring the experiences of refugee claimants in Atlantic Canada, this article focuses on the experiences and perceptions of immigrant service providers in relation to gender and women refugee claimants. Given the paucity of research on refugees in Atlantic Canada and on the particular perspectives of service providers, we have located this part of our research in the intersection of state policies and civil socie…
The Gender-Based Violence and Precarity Nexus: Asylum-Seeking Women in the Eastern Mediterranean
This paper derives from a larger research on gender-based violence and precarity in the forced migration journeys of asylum-seeking women transiting through the Eastern Mediterranean route and arriving in Greece, in the tumultuous, second decade of the 21st century. In this paper we present the findings from the first phase of the research. We analyze and discuss the opinions and information gathered through semi-structured interviews with twenty…
Surviving Gender-Based Violence: A Social Ecological Approach to Migrant and Refugee Women's Resilience
Many migrant and refugee women (MRW) experience different forms of gender-based violence (GBV) along the migratory pathway. GBV is rooted in intersecting structures of domination and extends beyond individual experiences to include the failure of policies and practices to protect women. In this article, through the lenses of "key informants" (KIs), we explore how MRW express resilience to GBV in the face of intersecting structural inequalities th…
Gender and Care Relationships in Transnational Families: Implications for Citizenship and Belonging
In contrast to studies of transnational care-giving that focus on the Global South and transnational parenting, this article examines the care practices and relations of permanent residents and foreign born citizens in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, whose care encompasses broader kin ties and social networks across borders and generations. By exploring the nature, modalities, frequency, financial and well-being consequences of transnational care p…
Gender-based and intersectional violence in migration and refugee contexts: A contextual global approach
Gender-based violence is a major infringement of women's human rights, and an obstacle to sustainable development as set out in the Sustainable Development Goals. In this article, we explore both the processes and findings of our international comparative project on gender-based violence in migration contexts. Our research takes a feminist, intersectional, collaborative, and contextual approach to understand gender-based violence in the context o…
"Multiculturalism as Part of the Lived Experience of the "Second Generation: Forging Identities by Lebanese-Origin Youth in Halifax
This paper focuses on the process of identity negotiation and formation by Canadian-born youth of Lebanese descent in Halifax, a middle tier city in Atlantic Canada. If multiculturalism, as collective identity and normative framework for national identity building (Kymlicka 2004) involves a negotiation between "us, them and others" (Winter 2011), how does individual identity negotiation and formation for the Canadian born of Lebanese descent take…
Negotiating Ethno-Cultural Identity: The Experience of Greek and Jewish Youth in Halifax
This paper focuses on the lived experiences of young people growing up Greek Canadian and Jewish Canadian in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It is based on data collected in a pilot study conducted with second-generation Greek and second-, third-, and fourth-generation Jewish youth in Halifax in 2004-05. Most of the existing research on the second generation and beyond lumps together the experiences of different ethnocultural groups. Perhaps even more impo…
Twenty-First Century "New" Greek Transnational Migration to Canada
This article derives from a qualitative study of the “new” migration from Greece to Canada, resulting from a severe socioeconomic crisis in Greece. Starting from the migration narratives of 20 “new” Greek migrants in Halifax and Toronto, this research focuses on how the “new” migrants make and carry out the decision to leave and immigrate to Canada. A heuristic use and reconceptualized understanding of the classic “push-pull” model, in conjunctio…
Introduction: The Experiences of Second-Generation Canadian Youth
Introduction:The Experiences of Second-Generation Canadian Youth Evangelia Tastsoglou Research on the second generation is relatively recent, but growing quickly in Canada and internationally. This issue of Canadian Ethnic Studies/Études ethniques au Canada has its origins in a workshop held at the Tenth National Metropolis Conference, which was held in Halifax. In many ways it continues a conversation left unfinished in that session. The nine ar…
Immigrant Women and Community Development in the Canadian Maritimes: Outsiders within
Evangelia Tastsoglou, Baukje Miedema, Immigrant Women and Community Development in the Canadian Maritimes: Outsiders within?, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Spring, 2003), pp. 203-234
Race and the Politics of Personal Relationships: Focus on Black Canadian Women
This article critically reviews the literature on racism (White and internalized Black) in the heterosexual relationships of Black women. In addition,it assesses the relevance of this literature to Canadian Black women,identifies the research gaps on the subject,and maps out an empirical agenda for research on Black Canadian heterosexual relationships,pr emised on an integrated feminist,antiracist,and classbased analytical perspective
The Greek Immigrant Family in the United States and Canada: The Transition from an “Institutional” to a “Relational” Form (1945–1970)
This paper attempts to provide a...comprehensive understanding of changes in the form, practices and values that took place in the Greek immigrant family in North America after World War II. Selected theoretical presuppositions will be followed by a discussion of the form and intra-family relations in the Greek immigrant family from 1945 to 1970. Finally,...the characteristics of Greek immigrants from the 1880s to the end of the Great Depression.…
The Greek Immigrant Family in the United States and Canada: The Transition from an “Institutional” to a “Relational” Form (1945–1970)
This paper attempts to provide a...comprehensive understanding of changes in the form, practices and values that took place in the Greek immigrant family in North America after World War II. Selected theoretical presuppositions will be followed by a discussion of the form and intra-family relations in the Greek immigrant family from 1945 to 1970. Finally,...the characteristics of Greek immigrants from the 1880s to the end of the Great Depression.…
Towards A Diversity Beyond Tolerance
On 7 February 1994, Maclean's magazine ran a story on one of Canada's most successful immigrants, British Columbia's lieutenant-governor, David See-Chai Lam. Mr. Lam, it is noted, has made considerable effort to increase understanding between Canadians and new arrivals by arguing that Canadians should celebrate rather than cultural diversity. He says tolerance is a slightly negative word ...it's like saying, 'You smell, but I can hold my breath.'…
Race and the Politics of Personal Relationships: Focus on Black Canadian Women
This article critically reviews the literature on racism (White and internalized Black) in the heterosexual relationships of Black women. In addition,it assesses the relevance of this literature to Canadian Black women,identifies the research gaps on the subject,and maps out an empirical agenda for research on Black Canadian heterosexual relationships,pr emised on an integrated feminist,antiracist,and classbased analytical perspective
Immigrant Women and Community Development in the Canadian Maritimes: Outsiders within
Evangelia Tastsoglou, Baukje Miedema, Immigrant Women and Community Development in the Canadian Maritimes: Outsiders within?, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Spring, 2003), pp. 203-234
Introduction: The Experiences of Second-Generation Canadian Youth
Introduction:The Experiences of Second-Generation Canadian Youth Evangelia Tastsoglou Research on the second generation is relatively recent, but growing quickly in Canada and internationally. This issue of Canadian Ethnic Studies/Études ethniques au Canada has its origins in a workshop held at the Tenth National Metropolis Conference, which was held in Halifax. In many ways it continues a conversation left unfinished in that session. The nine ar…
Negotiating Ethno-Cultural Identity: The Experience of Greek and Jewish Youth in Halifax
This paper focuses on the lived experiences of young people growing up Greek Canadian and Jewish Canadian in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It is based on data collected in a pilot study conducted with second-generation Greek and second-, third-, and fourth-generation Jewish youth in Halifax in 2004-05. Most of the existing research on the second generation and beyond lumps together the experiences of different ethnocultural groups. Perhaps even more impo…
"Multiculturalism as Part of the Lived Experience of the "Second Generation: Forging Identities by Lebanese-Origin Youth in Halifax
This paper focuses on the process of identity negotiation and formation by Canadian-born youth of Lebanese descent in Halifax, a middle tier city in Atlantic Canada. If multiculturalism, as collective identity and normative framework for national identity building (Kymlicka 2004) involves a negotiation between "us, them and others" (Winter 2011), how does individual identity negotiation and formation for the Canadian born of Lebanese descent take…
(En)Gendering Vulnerability: Immigrant Service Providers’ Perceptions of Needs, Policies, and Practices Related to Gender and Women Refugee Claimants in Atlantic Canada
As part of a multi-phased study exploring the experiences of refugee claimants in Atlantic Canada, this article focuses on the experiences and perceptions of immigrant service providers in relation to gender and women refugee claimants. Given the paucity of research on refugees in Atlantic Canada and on the particular perspectives of service providers, we have located this part of our research in the intersection of state policies and civil socie…
Addressing domestic violence in Canada and the United States: The uneasy co-habitation of women and the state
Feminist sociologists and activists have drawn attention to how violence against women is linked to structural and cultural factors that subordinate women, mainly intersecting inequalities and limited rights. Mobilization by the Battered Women's and Anti-Violence Movements, media attention, legislation, and policy have increased awareness and support to address violence against women. However, activists and researchers have also critiqued the pro…
Interrogating gender, violence, and the state in national and transnational contexts: Framing the issues
In order to situate this monograph issue this introductory article starts with a brief, selective, and global overview of violence against women in diverse contexts, followed by the editors' own approach on violence against women and the state. Focusing on cross-cutting themes, the introduction presents and discusses the articles included in this monograph, demonstrating the role of the state in addressing sexual violence and domestic or intimate…
Gender and Care Relationships in Transnational Families: Implications for Citizenship and Belonging
In contrast to studies of transnational care-giving that focus on the Global South and transnational parenting, this article examines the care practices and relations of permanent residents and foreign born citizens in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, whose care encompasses broader kin ties and social networks across borders and generations. By exploring the nature, modalities, frequency, financial and well-being consequences of transnational care p…
The Contributions and Constraints of Contemporary Immigration and Citizenship: Commemorating Canada's 150 Years
The Contributions and Constraints of Contemporary Immigration and Citizenship: Commemorating Canada’s 150 Years Evangelia Tastsoglou, Special Guest Editor (bio) Although neither selected as representative of the field of Canadian ethnic studies, nor comprehensive, the articles in this special issue of Canadian Ethnic Studies/Études ethniques au Canada, commemorating Canada’s 150 years, do provide a good sense of the contemporary state of ethnic s…
(Re)Producing Gender: Refugee Advocacy and Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Refugee Narratives
The glaring absence of gender persecution as grounds for protection in the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees , the cornerstone of international refugee law, continues to impact current refugee claims driven by fear of sexual and gender-based violence. Applying a transnational, feminist and intersectional perspective, our study presents qualitative research on this particular form of violence in refugee claims. The lack of a stron…
Transnational, Feminist and Intersectional Perspectives on Immigrants and Refugees in Canada: An Introduction
Transnational, Feminist and Intersectional Perspectives on Immigrants and Refugees in Canada:An Introduction Evangelia Tastsoglou, Special Guest Editor (bio) Since the early 1990s, there has been a burgeoning scholarship of theoretical and empirical contributions to the transnationalism discourse. The global interconnectedness of states, regions, institutions, organizations, groups, individuals, and processes among them, captured by the concept o…
The Gender-Based Violence and Precarity Nexus: Asylum-Seeking Women in the Eastern Mediterranean
This paper derives from a larger research on gender-based violence and precarity in the forced migration journeys of asylum-seeking women transiting through the Eastern Mediterranean route and arriving in Greece, in the tumultuous, second decade of the 21st century. In this paper we present the findings from the first phase of the research. We analyze and discuss the opinions and information gathered through semi-structured interviews with twenty…
Twenty-First Century "New" Greek Transnational Migration to Canada
This article derives from a qualitative study of the “new” migration from Greece to Canada, resulting from a severe socioeconomic crisis in Greece. Starting from the migration narratives of 20 “new” Greek migrants in Halifax and Toronto, this research focuses on how the “new” migrants make and carry out the decision to leave and immigrate to Canada. A heuristic use and reconceptualized understanding of the classic “push-pull” model, in conjunctio…
Middle Eastern Transnational Families and Ethnic Networks: A Story of Immigrant Mobilities to and from Atlantic Canada
Practicing Conformity, Resistance and Resilience to Gender-Based Violence: Women Asylum Seekers in the Eastern Mediterranean
In this paper, we use semi-structured interviews with 35 asylum-seeking women to elicit a narrative of their forced migration journey which included a stop in Turkey, a perilous sea crossing facilitated by smugglers and a stay in a European Union borderland, Greece. We explore their experiences with a focus on the adversities they faced, especially gender-based violence, woven in the broader violence of mobility under restrictive border and asylu…
Surviving Gender-Based Violence: A Social Ecological Approach to Migrant and Refugee Women's Resilience
Many migrant and refugee women (MRW) experience different forms of gender-based violence (GBV) along the migratory pathway. GBV is rooted in intersecting structures of domination and extends beyond individual experiences to include the failure of policies and practices to protect women. In this article, through the lenses of "key informants" (KIs), we explore how MRW express resilience to GBV in the face of intersecting structural inequalities th…
The continuum of gender-based violence experienced by migrant and refugee women in Canada: Perspectives from key informants
Little research has been done on conceptualizing gender-based violence (GBV) against immigrant and refugee women as a continuum of violence. The objective of the larger study was to understand gender-based violence in migration and analyze the ways in which discriminations and inequalities interact to increase vulnerability and decrease access to supports and services for some women. Using (a) the concept of continuum of [sexual] violence and (b)…
Gender and Asylum-Seeking in a European Borderland: Intersectional Discriminations and “Lessened” Citizenship
This paper presents a feminist analysis of the manifold and intertwined discriminations faced by asylumseeking women in a European “borderland”—specifically, Greece. It explores how these discriminations operate across law, policy, practice, and discourse, while highlighting the dynamic interplay of intersectional discriminations with citizenship rights and practices. Data were collected through 35 interviews with asylumseeking women. The analysi…
A Matter of National Dignity: Protection of Slaves and Southern Refugees in Canada, 1844-1869
Canada's humanitarian tradition has been a pole of attraction to new immigrants and refugees and a source of pride for Canadians. As part of an ongoing research project on changing representations of refugees and immigrants in Canadian mainstream newspapers, this research note focuses on two groups of refugees who came to Canada around the time of the American Civil War. We discovered the two historical extradition court cases of refugees who wer…
Tracing individual experiences to systemic challenges: The (re)production of GBV in migrant women’s experiences in Canada
This study examines the experiences of migrant women survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) in Canada, focusing on their processes of disclosing violence and seeking help. It explores a range of migration-related factors and circumstances that shape migrant women's responses to violence while also aiming to reveal how migration contexts determine system-and structural-level responses to GBV, which are then traced back to women's individual expe…
Gender-Based Violence in a Migration Context: Health Impacts and Barriers to Healthcare Access and Help Seeking for Migrant and Refugee Women in Canada
This article focuses on the health impacts of the gender-based violence (GBV) experienced by migrant and refugee women (MRW) survivors in their migration/settlement journeys in Canada, and their challenges in accessing healthcare. Adopting a feminist and intersectional lens, I draw upon qualitative in-depth interviews with 48 migrant women conducted between 2020 and 2022. GBV is a frequent experience in the migration and (re)settlement journey an…
Gender-based and intersectional violence in migration and refugee contexts: A contextual global approach
Gender-based violence is a major infringement of women's human rights, and an obstacle to sustainable development as set out in the Sustainable Development Goals. In this article, we explore both the processes and findings of our international comparative project on gender-based violence in migration contexts. Our research takes a feminist, intersectional, collaborative, and contextual approach to understand gender-based violence in the context o…
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