Overview
- Bridges fields of migration, conflict, and women’s studies
- Brings together state-of-the-art academic and practitioner discourse
- Covers the key areas of concern
- In-depth knowledge presented and drawn from academic and policy worlds
- Value to teaching and practice, including policy recommendations
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
An estimated 35 million people worldwide are displaced by conflict, and most of them are women and children. During their time away from their homes and communities, these women and their children are subjected to a horrifying array of misfortune, including privations of every kind, sexual assaults, disease, imprisonment, unwanted pregnancies, severe psychological trauma, and, upon return or resettlement, social disapproval and isolation.
Written by the world’s leading scholars and practitioners, this unique collection brings these problems - and potential solutions - into sharp focus. Based on extensive field research and a broad knowledge of other studies of the challenges facing women who are forced from their homes and homelands by conflict, this book offers in-depth understanding and problem-solving ideas. Derived from a project to advise U.N. agencies, it speaks to a broad array of students, scholars, NGOs, policymakers, government officials, and international organizations.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Susan Forbes Martin, Editor, is Donald G. Herzberg Associate Professor of International Migration and Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration in the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, and longtime consultant to many agencies on migration issues.
John Tirman, Editor, is Executive Director of the Center for International Studies at MIT, where he is also Principal Research Scientist. He is on the steering group of the Inter-University Committee on International Migration.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women, Migration, and Conflict
Book Subtitle: Breaking a Deadly Cycle
Editors: Susan Forbes Martin, John Tirman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2825-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-2824-2Published: 19 October 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9131-2Published: 02 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-2825-9Published: 18 September 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 253
Topics: Migration, Gender Studies, Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law, Maternal and Child Health