Palestinian Refugee Women from Syria to Jordan: Decolonizing the Geopolitics of Displacement

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Afaf Jabiri (University of East London, UK)

Palestinian Refugee Women from Syria to Jordan

Decolonizing the Geopolitics of Displacement

Afaf Jabiri (University of East London, UK)

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English

I.B. Tauris
22 February 2024

Refugees & political asylum; Migration, immigration & emigration; Gender studies: women

Based on four years of field research in Palestinian camps in Jordan - including unique interviews with Palestinian refugee women, aid workers, and representatives of international organisations and NGOs in Jordan - the book reveals the extraordinary layers of discrimination suffered by Palestinian women from Syria displaced to Jordan.

The women’s experiences show them caught between settler colonialism, militarism, nationalism, refugees’ global governance and gender regimes that subjected them to multiple forms of structural gender-based violence.

The book argues for a feminist analysis of settler colonialism’s epistemic violence of anti-Palestinianism to expose the history and geopolitics of intersecting oppressive systems that work through and upon gendered bodies of Palestinian refugee women in humanitarian settings. The book also highlights how local women’s groups and frontline workers attempt to fill service gaps. Using a rich theoretical lens to understand the experiences of women in refugee camps, this book attempts to decolonise issues around migration, displacement, refugees and women.

Previous work on the Syrian refugee crisis has overlooked the very particular experiences of Palestinian refugee women, which has weakened feminist analysis of gendered processes of humanitarianism, and feminist transnational and intersectional solidarity. This book offers a vital critique of how feminists’ adoption of a universality-based analysis of the Syrian refugee crisis has contributed to the further marginalisation of Palestinian refugee women from Syria.

By: Afaf Jabiri (University of East London UK)
Imprint: I.B. Tauris
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780755644803
ISBN 10: 0755644808
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 22 February 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Afaf Jabiri is Senior Lecturer of Development Studies at the University of East London, UK. She has previously held teaching positions at the Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS, UK and the Gender Institute, LSE, UK. She is the author of Gendered Politics and Law in Jordan: Guardianship over Women (2016) and Palestinian refugee Women from Syria to Jordan: Decolonising the Geopolitics of Displacement (2023).

Reviews for Palestinian Refugee Women from Syria to Jordan: Decolonizing the Geopolitics of Displacement

This is a luminous book of courage and stoicism in women’s voices from a hidden world of cruelties. Meticulous research and analysis reveal unique structural and gendered discrimination and violence faced in Jordan by Palestinian refugee women and girls from Syria. This is a new and shocking indictment of the failure of the UN and international aid agencies to protect. * Victoria Brittain, a former foreign correspondent and Associate Foreign Editor of The Guardian. *