Not Born a Refugee Woman

Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed is a Professor at McMaster University who teaches in the French Department, the Women’s Studies Program, and at the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition. As a principal investigator of the McMaster Research Centre for the Promotion of Women’s Health, she conducted studies with immigrant and refugee women, co-authored Women’s Voices in Health Promotion and published essays on dialogism, participatory research, culture and mental health, and on exilic women’s narratives.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionMaroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed, Nazilla Khanlou and Helene MoussaSECTION I: RECONCEPTUALIZING IDENTITIESChapter 1. A Dialogical Approach to Identity: Implications for Refugee WomenMaroussia Hajdukowski-AhmedChapter 2. The Gender Relations of Home, Security and Transversal Feminism: Refugee Women Reclaiming their IdentitiesWenona GilesChapter 3. Always "Natasha": The Transnational Sex Trafficking of WomenVictor Malarek and Sarah WaylandChapter 4. Reconstituting the Subject: Feminist Politics of Humanitarian AssistanceJennyfer Hyndman and Malathi De AlwisSECTION II: CHALLENGING METHODOLOGIES: CHALLENGING THE RESEARCHERChapter 5. Befriending Refugee Women: Refracted Knowledge and Shifting ViewpointsAdrienne ChambonChapter 6. "Days You Remember": Japanese Canadian Women and The Violence of InternmentPamela SugimanChapter 7. War, Diaspora, Learning, and Women’s StandpointRachel GormanChapter 8. Being A Writer on Women, Violence, and WarMadeleine GagnonSECTION III: RETHINKING PRACTICES: CREATING SPACES FOR AGENCYChapter 9. The Representation of Refugee Women in our Research and PracticeMaryann LoughryChapter 10. Refugee Youth, Gender and Identity: On the Margins of Mental Health PromotionNazilla Khanlou and Sepali GurugeChapter 11. Pray God and Keep Walking: Religion, Gender, Identity and Refugee WomenElzbieta GozdziakChapter 12. "We Want to Talk, They Give Us Pills": Identity and Mental Health of Refugee Women from SudanLynda Hayward, Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed, Karen Trollope and Jenny PloegSECTION IV: REVIEWING POLICY: TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE RIGHTS OF REFUGEE WOMENChapter 13. Protecting Refugee Women: UNHCR and the Gender Equity ChallengeJudith KuminChapter 14. Social Protection of Refugee Women: Paradoxes, Tensions, and DirectionsPatricia M. DaenzerChapter 15. The Gender Factor in Refugee Determination and the Effect of "Gender Guidelines"Geradline SadowayChapter 16. Pursuing National Responsibility in a Post 9/11 World: Seeking Asylum in Canada From Gender PersecutionSherene Razack and Carmela MurdoccaNotes on ContributorsReferencesIndex

“…a compelling collection of testimonies, dialogues, research and experiences with displaced women in a diversity of locales and from a diversity of angles… This volume should stimulate research at the graduate level and also motivate further collaborative inter-disciplinary research to feed into policy analysis and policy making. Therefore, it will be of interest to a wide audience of scholars, students, policy makers, advocates and service providers interested in new developments and critical practices in a wide range of domains related to gender and forced migrations.”  ·  Journal of Refugee Studies“The book as a whole offers an array of difficult topics: the way women’s identities are shaped and reshaped by the complicated experiences of refugeeism; global sex trade and sex trafficking of Eastern European women; connections between war and homelessness…a valuable text that is bound to challenge students and teachers alike, in both our methodologies and our personal desires for an easy consumption of knowledge about the world and ourselves.”  ·  Women's Review of Books