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Author | : Melinda McPherson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2014-10-07 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1134099754 |
Even with increased attention to refugee women’s issues in the late 20th century, post-colonial discourses have nurtured limiting representations of refugee women, predominantly as subjects of charity and as victims. Adding to a growing body of work in the field, the author challenges this preconception by offering an opportunity for women’s voices to shape and influence policy, especially as it pertains to the role of education in the authoring of their own lives. In this volume, Melinda McPherson centres refugee women’s voices in the educational policy debate. Drawing on interviews with a group of refugee women in Melbourne, she explores purposes of education, and asks what kind of society these women imagine for themselves and for others. Their critical reflections, personal experiences and diverse backgrounds offer a contrasting picture to that privileged in ordinary policy debate. The women require support, resources, and guidance; but they are agents in their own lives who bring strength, thought, and imagination to crafting their own destinies in a new country. Education is a pivotal tool in exercising that agency. Throughout the book, discussions centre on why education matters to refugee women, focusing upon the integral links between education, civil society, and successful settlement, and conversely on the negative impacts of exclusionary practices. Representation and participation in education is a topic of critical social justice concern, and as such, the book will form important reading for academics, students, policy makers, and community development researchers.
Author | : Melinda McPherson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2014-10-07 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1134099827 |
Even with increased attention to refugee women‘s issues in the late 20th century, post-colonial discourses have nurtured limiting representations of refugee women, predominantly as subjects of charity and as victims. Adding to a growing body of work in the field, the author challenges this preconception by offering an opportunity for women‘s voices
Author | : Melinda McPherson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 840 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Women refugees |
ISBN | : |
"In this thesis, I am concerned about the ways in which privileged representations of refugee women in Australian government settlement education policy might re-institute their marginality and disadvantage. Participation in education confers a variety of benefits on individuals and exclusion or marginalisation from it is conversly detrimental, so representations in education policy are of importance. Framed from a post-structural, feminist perspective, my overarching purpose in this work is to interrupt the kinds of dominant representations of refugee women which currently prevail in policy". -- Abstract.
Author | : Leah Bassel |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0415603609 |
Debates over the headscarf and niqab, so-called 'sharia-tribunals', Female Genital Operations and forced marriages have raged in Europe and North America in recent years, raising the question - does accommodating Islam violate women's rights? The book takes issue with the terms of this debate. It contrasts debates in France over the headscarf and in Canada over religious arbitration with the lived experience of a specific group of Muslim women: Somali refugee women. Breaking from scholarship that focuses on whether the accommodation of culture and religion harms women, Bassel pleads compellingly for a consideration of women in all their complexity, as active participants in democratic life.
Author | : Amanda Skuldt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2014-09-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780415814546 |
Even with increased attention to refugee women's issues in the late 20th century, post-colonial discourses have nurtured limiting representations of refugee women, predominantly as subjects of charity and as victims. Adding to a growing body of work in the field, the author challenges this preconception by offering an opportunity for women's voices to shape and influence policy, especially as it pertains to the role of education in the authoring of their own lives. In this volume, Melinda McPherson centres refugee women's voices in the educational policy debate. Drawing on interviews with a group of refugee women in Melbourne, she explores purposes of education, and asks what kind of society these women imagine for themselves and for others. Their critical reflections, personal experiences and diverse backgrounds offer a contrasting picture to that privileged in ordinary policy debate. The women require support, resources, and guidance; but they are agents in their own lives who bring strength, thought, and imagination to crafting their own destinies in a new country. Education is a pivotal tool in exercising that agency. Throughout the book, discussions centre on why education matters to refugee women, focusing upon the integral links between education, civil society, and successful settlement, and conversely on the negative impacts of exclusionary practices. Representation and participation in education is a topic of critical social justice concern, and as such, the book will form important reading for academics, students, policy makers, and community development researchers.
Author | : Susan Forbes Martin |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780739105894 |
This new and revised edition includes new material on the legal issues and policies developed to protect displaced women, and addresses the increasingly recognised problem of internally displaced persons, focusing on the unique hardships for women who are forced from their homes.
Author | : Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781845454975 |
Not Born a Refugee Woman is an in-depth inquiry into the identity construction of refugee women. It challenges and rethinks current identity concepts, policies, and practices in the context of a globalizing environment, and in the increasingly racialized post-September 11th context, from the perspective of refugee women. This collection brings together scholar_practitioners from across a wide range of disciplines. The authors emphasize refugee women's agency, resilience, and creativity, in the continuum of domestic, civil, and transnational violence and conflicts, whether in flight or in resettlement, during their uprooted journey and beyond. Through the analysis of local examples and international case studies, the authors critically examine gendered and interrelated factors such as location, humanitarian aid, race, cultural norms, and current psycho-social research that affect the identity and well being of refugee women. This volume is destined to a wide audience of scholars, students, policy makers, advocates, and service providers interested in new developments and critical practices in domains related to gender and forced migrations.
Author | : Ellen Cole |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2013-05-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1135837678 |
Currently, there are over 15 million legally designated refugees all over the world and it is documented that 75 percent of those refugees are women, yet most of the existent literature does not focus on this group as women. Most of the literature focuses on political, economic, and social issues with very little reference to the mental health implications of the refugees’experiences as women. Refugee Women and Their Mental Health begins to fill this paucity of information on female refugees’experiences. A book of immediate interest, Refugee Women and Their Mental Health focuses on understanding the plight of women refugees around the world, with an emphasis on mental health. The book adds successful and innovative treatment and recovery models for these women survivors. Some of the chapters are written by women who are therapists/psychologists now and who have been refugees themselves. This adds additional insight into the plight and resulting mental health problems of refugee women. The chapters cover a vast range of topics: torture and sexual abuse as refugees/victims of state violence elderly women refugees immigration law and women refugees first-person narratives the transformation of identity successful creative treatment programs It becomes clear that women refugees from all over the world under different political events and circumstances share common values and have similar mental health needs. Refugee Women and Their Mental Health explores processes of recovery from the traumas experienced by these women and offers a variety of models for the application of feminist theory to the plight of women refugees. Experienced therapists of women and those in training to be therapists will want to read this book. The topics of refugee women rarely comes up in training programs, so the information in this book is vital for therapists, policy makers, and other service providers and professors of psychology of women, immigration and social work issues, and women and mental health issues.
Author | : Enakshi Sengupta |
Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2018-10-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1787147975 |
This volume will provide educators at all levels with a research and evidence based understanding of the educational opportunities and challenges facing refugees. The chapters focus on strategies and policies for providing education to the world's refugee populations.
Author | : Isabel Maria Gomez Barreto |
Publisher | : Information Science Reference |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Emigration and immigration |
ISBN | : 9781799872832 |
"This book presents an overview of immigration, refugees, social justice, and intercultural education offering theoretical frameworks and recent results of empirical research on issues such as the increase in migration and how governments and educational entities are approaching ensuing issues in the host communities"--