Overview
Focusing on the flight of women and girls from Venezuela, this book examines the gendered nature of forced displacement and the ways in which the failures of protection regimes to be sensitive to displacement's gendered character affect women and girls, and their sexual and reproductive health. Highlighting how categorical legal distinctions between 'refugees' and 'migrants' fail to capture the dynamics of forced migration in Latin America, it investigates how the operation of this categorical divide generates responsibility and protection gaps in relation to female forced migrants which act as determinants of sexual and reproductive health. Drawing on the voices of displaced women, it argues that a robust political ethics of protection of the forcibly displaced must encompass all necessary fleers and be responsive to the gendered character of forced displacement and particularly to effective access to sexual and reproductive health rights.
Full Product Details
Author: Natalia Cintra (University of Southampton) ,
David Owen (University of Southampton) ,
Pía Riggirozzi (University of Southampton)
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Bristol University Press
ISBN: 9781529222791
ISBN 10: 1529222796
Pages: 206
Publication Date: 19 June 2023
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""A conceptually rich and practically grounded analysis that puts the human rights of women and girls at the forefront of reform of the international system of refugee protection."" Alex Aleinikoff, The New School for Social Research ""This is a powerful and important book, revealing the complex gendering of the migration experience and the categories that serve to exclude women and others from protection and support."" Heaven Crawley, United Nations University
"""A conceptually rich and practically grounded analysis that puts the human rights of women and girls at the forefront of reform of the international system of refugee protection."" Alex Aleinikoff, The New School for Social Research ""This is a powerful and important book, revealing the complex gendering of the migration experience and the categories that serve to exclude women and others from protection and support."" Heaven Crawley, United Nations University"
Author Information
Natalia Cintra is Research Fellow for the ESRC funded project Redressing Gendered Health Inequalities of Displaced Women and Girls in contexts of Protracted Crisis in Central and South America (ReGHID) at the University of Southampton. David Owen is Professor of Social and Political Philosophy in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Southampton, and co-investigator in the ReGHID project. Pa Riggirozzi is Professor of Global Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Southampton. She is also Principal Investigator for the ReGHID project.
