The Gender-Based Violence and Precarity Nexus: Asylum-Seeking Women in the Eastern Mediterranean
This paper derives from a larger research on gender-based violence and precarity in the forced migration journeys of asylum-seeking women transiting through the Eastern Mediterranean route and arriving in Greece, in the tumultuous, second decade of the 21st century. In this paper we present the find...
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| description | This paper derives from a larger research on gender-based violence and precarity in the forced migration journeys of asylum-seeking women transiting through the Eastern Mediterranean route and arriving in Greece, in the tumultuous, second decade of the 21st century. In this paper we present the findings from the first phase of the research. We analyze and discuss the opinions and information gathered through semi-structured interviews with twenty key informants: service providers, staff of international and national NGOs, local government staff and public officials. Our findings locate the five points/loci in irregular cross-border movements and arrival at an EU member-state where precarity interweaves with gender-based violence. The first locus, is in transit and EU and Greek border crossing; second, during the asylum determination process; third, in their everyday life when they must deal with homelessness and harsh living conditions; fourth, in the deficiency of care services further aggravated by intersectional discrimination; finally, by being trapped in abusive settings and relationships due to the ineffective state response, a sluggish criminal justice system, and the victim’s financial dependence on the perpetrator. Adopting a feminist and intersectional approach our analysis shows that violence and precarity are co-constituted and reinforce each other through the undermining of the citizenship status of asylum seekers and the inscription, on their bodies and lives, of unequal gendered social and institutional power relations. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3c40efd6d51b42369e77b58d13c1592a2022-12-21T20:40:59ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Human Dynamics2673-27262021-05-01310.3389/fhumd.2021.660682660682The Gender-Based Violence and Precarity Nexus: Asylum-Seeking Women in the Eastern MediterraneanEvangelia Tastsoglou0Xanthi Petrinioti1Xanthi Petrinioti2Chara Karagiannopoulou3Department of Sociology, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax Regional Municipality, NS, CanadaInternational Development Studies, Adjunct Professor, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax Regional Municipality, NS, CanadaDepartment of International, European and Area Studies, Professor Emeritus, Panteion University, Athens, GreeceDepartment of International, European and Area Studies, Panteion University, Athens, GreeceThis paper derives from a larger research on gender-based violence and precarity in the forced migration journeys of asylum-seeking women transiting through the Eastern Mediterranean route and arriving in Greece, in the tumultuous, second decade of the 21st century. In this paper we present the findings from the first phase of the research. We analyze and discuss the opinions and information gathered through semi-structured interviews with twenty key informants: service providers, staff of international and national NGOs, local government staff and public officials. Our findings locate the five points/loci in irregular cross-border movements and arrival at an EU member-state where precarity interweaves with gender-based violence. The first locus, is in transit and EU and Greek border crossing; second, during the asylum determination process; third, in their everyday life when they must deal with homelessness and harsh living conditions; fourth, in the deficiency of care services further aggravated by intersectional discrimination; finally, by being trapped in abusive settings and relationships due to the ineffective state response, a sluggish criminal justice system, and the victim’s financial dependence on the perpetrator. Adopting a feminist and intersectional approach our analysis shows that violence and precarity are co-constituted and reinforce each other through the undermining of the citizenship status of asylum seekers and the inscription, on their bodies and lives, of unequal gendered social and institutional power relations.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fhumd.2021.660682/fullgender-based violenceprecarityasylum seekerswomengenderEastern Mediterranean |
| spellingShingle | Evangelia Tastsoglou Xanthi Petrinioti Xanthi Petrinioti Chara Karagiannopoulou The Gender-Based Violence and Precarity Nexus: Asylum-Seeking Women in the Eastern Mediterranean Frontiers in Human Dynamics gender-based violence precarity asylum seekers women gender Eastern Mediterranean |
| title | The Gender-Based Violence and Precarity Nexus: Asylum-Seeking Women in the Eastern Mediterranean |
| title_full | The Gender-Based Violence and Precarity Nexus: Asylum-Seeking Women in the Eastern Mediterranean |
| title_fullStr | The Gender-Based Violence and Precarity Nexus: Asylum-Seeking Women in the Eastern Mediterranean |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Gender-Based Violence and Precarity Nexus: Asylum-Seeking Women in the Eastern Mediterranean |
| title_short | The Gender-Based Violence and Precarity Nexus: Asylum-Seeking Women in the Eastern Mediterranean |
| title_sort | gender based violence and precarity nexus asylum seeking women in the eastern mediterranean |
| topic | gender-based violence precarity asylum seekers women gender Eastern Mediterranean |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fhumd.2021.660682/full |
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