TITLE OF PAPER | Gendered Vulnerabilities: Assessing the Deservingness of Refugee Women Under International Protection in Turkey |
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AUTHORS NAME | Meriç Çağlar |
AFFILIATION | PhD Candidate in Gender Studies |
UNIVERSITY / INSTITUTE | Central European University |
caglar_meric@phd.ceu.edu | |
ABSTRACT |
This research aims to examine how refugee women under international protection living in satellite cities of Turkey have access to social and financial aid schemes. According to the geographic limitation on the 1951 Geneva Convention, Turkey only accepts refugees from Europe, and asylum seekers from other countries such as Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and African countries –conditional refugees under temporary protection of UNHCR- are allowed to reside in cities, called satellite cities, until their resettlement to a third country. As these cities are relatively less developed cities of Turkey, they present very limited options in terms of socio-economic integration and refugees’ access to labor market. |
BIOGRAPHY |
Meriç Çağlar is a PhD candidate in Gender Studies at Central European University. She completed her MAs at Rovira i Virgili (Mediterranean Relations) and Pompeu Fabra (Migration Management) Universities in Spain, and worked as a researcher and a coordinator at Migration Research Centre at Koç University, Istanbul. Currently she is working on her PhD project entitled ‘Assessing the Hierarchy of Deservingness Through Victimhood: Refugee Women Under International Protection in Turkey’. Her research interests lie in the area of; intersectionality in migration studies, critical race theory, post-colonial feminisms, categorization of migrants, refugee integration in Turkey, and migrant deservingness. |
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KEYWORDS | gendered vulnerability, migrant deservingness, refugee protection, intersectionality |
STREAM | 2. Migration: Sexual and Gendered Displacements |
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