Not Born a Refugee Woman

"...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

Nazilla Khanlou is Associate Professor at the LSB Faculty of Nursing and Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, and is the upcoming inaugural Ontario Women's Health Council Chair in Women's Mental Health Research at York University. She has received major peer-reviewed grants from federal and provincial research funding agencies, and conducted policy informing research (Status of Women Canada). She has published numerous articles, books, and reports on youth, immigrant health, and mental health promotion.

Acknowledgements Introduction Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed, Nazilla Khanlou and Helene Moussa SECTION I: RECONCEPTUALIZING IDENTITIES Chapter 1. A Dialogical Approach to Identity: Implications for Refugee Women Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed Chapter 2. The Gender Relations of Home, Security and Transversal Feminism: Refugee Women Reclaiming their Identities Wenona Giles Chapter 3. Always "Natasha": The Transnational Sex Trafficking of Women Victor Malarek and Sarah Wayland Chapter 4. Reconstituting the Subject: Feminist Politics of Humanitarian Assistance Jennyfer Hyndman and Malathi De Alwis SECTION II: CHALLENGING METHODOLOGIES: CHALLENGING THE RESEARCHER Chapter 5. Befriending Refugee Women: Refracted Knowledge and Shifting Viewpoints Adrienne Chambon Chapter 6. "Days You Remember": Japanese Canadian Women and The Violence of Internment Pamela Sugiman Chapter 7. War, Diaspora, Learning, and Women's Standpoint Rachel Gorman Chapter 8. Being A Writer on Women, Violence, and War Madeleine Gagnon SECTION III: RETHINKING PRACTICES: CREATING SPACES FOR AGENCY Chapter 9. The Representation of Refugee Women in our Research and Practice Maryann Loughry Chapter 10. Refugee Youth, Gender and Identity: On the Margins of Mental Health Promotion Nazilla Khanlou and Sepali Guruge Chapter 11. Pray God and Keep Walking: Religion, Gender, Identity and Refugee Women Elzbieta Gozdziak Chapter 12. "We Want to Talk, They Give Us Pills": Identity and Mental Health of Refugee Women from Sudan Lynda Hayward, Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed, Karen Trollope and Jenny Ploeg SECTION IV: REVIEWING POLICY: TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE RIGHTS OF REFUGEE WOMEN Chapter 13. Protecting Refugee Women: UNHCR and the Gender Equity Challenge Judith Kumin Chapter 14. Social Protection of Refugee Women: Paradoxes, Tensions, and Directions Patricia M. Daenzer Chapter 15. The Gender Factor in Refugee Determination and the Effect of "Gender Guidelines" Geradline Sadoway Chapter 16. Pursuing National Responsibility in a Post 9/11 World: Seeking Asylum in Canada From Gender Persecution Sherene Razack and Carmela Murdocca Notes on Contributors References Index