Telling stories of resistance and ruination: Women seeking asylum
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...Despite the recent academic interest in asylum, there has been limited work exploring everyday life during this period and almost no research that specifically looks at women’s experiences (for notable exceptions see Conlon, 2007, 2011a, Raven-Ellison, 2015, Smith, 2015, 2016, 2017)....
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...…to see how women experience this ‘betwixt and between’ time (Turner, 1995), to look at what people’s experiences are of living, and waiting, subject to the rules and regulations of the asylum system (for notable exceptions see Conlon, 2007, 2011a, Raven-Ellison, 2015, Smith, 2015, 2016, 2017)....
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...As a result it was constructed around the concept of “the male political refugee” with “gender-based persecution omitted as a determining factor for receiving refugee status” resulting in the stories of women refugees being largely “ignored, overlooked and marginalized” (Smith, 2016; 57)....
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...However, asylum seekers’ testimonies are constantly being scrutinised for their authenticity, and they are increasingly being discredited both within national asylum processes and by the hosting publics (Fassin, 2013; Shuman and Bohmer, 2004; Smith, 2017)....
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...This included identifying other-mothers (Collins, 2000), in the form of grandmothers and other close female relatives, to care for their children....
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...Living apart from their children (or some of their children), maternal nurture was considered a vital component for child well-being and some women said they had placed their children in the care of close female family members who they felt they could trust (Collins, 2000)....
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...The 1951 United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (Refugee Convention), and 1967 Protocol, form the legal basis for states to grant asylum and it is intended to ensure the rights, protection and provision for the adequate treatment of refugees....
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...Informed by definitions and judgments of refugees being “genuine” and “men”, women have been primarily viewed as the dependents of the political activities of men and “not genuine” (Freedman, 2008; Hunt, 2005; Yuval-Davis et al., 2005)....
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...…approach rejects the inlaga 2-2016 22 jan 2017.indd 34 2017-01-22 19:09 35 view that there is one “truth” or one story for researchers to discover, but rather that all stories are liberated, informed and constrained by the social, political and historical contexts of their telling (Plummer, 1995)....
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...None of us are entirely free to tell any story and the articulation of stories is accomplished in relation to available narrative frameworks (Plummer, 1995)....
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...My gratitude to the editors for their respectful and relational approach that is both radical and necessary. inlaga 2-2016 22 jan 2017.indd 33 2017-01-22 19:09 34 contradictions of women’s lives and open up the possibilities for women to tell their own diverse and different stories....
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