Intersectionality and Durable Solutions for Refugee Women in Africa

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13047283
AutoresOlajumoke Yacob‐Haliso (0000-0002-8202-8925, Babcock University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen11
Número3
Páginas53-67
Fecha de publicación2016-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Peacebuilding & Development (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2165-7440 • E-ISSN: 1542-3166
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1080/15423166.2016.1236698
OpenAlexW2560043513
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas26
Referencias citadas25

This article proposes a re-evaluation of the classic 'durable solutions' – repatriation, local integration, resettlement – being applied to refugee women in Africa, foregrounding gender considerations in the selection of solutions to apply, women's access to these processes, and sensitivity to the African and peacebuilding context. Extant literature largely ignores the reality of diversity among refugee women. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) policy and states' practices regarding refugee women do not sufficiently address this diversity and how structural dynamics are shaping durable solutions for refugees. I argue therefore that there is an intersectionality of disadvantage, a dual intertwined convergence of personal and systemic factors that make refugee women in Africa doubly deprived in accessing and experiencing sustainable durable solutions. I suggest that rethinking durable solutions for refugee women in Africa involves a reassessment of the three solutions, and the adoption of initiatives that positively link refugee women and peacebuilding outcomes

Context (archaeology · Diversity (politics · Geography · Intersectionality · Peacebuilding · Political science · Refugee · Repatriation · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Human Rights and Development · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Public Administration