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Women, Peace, and Security: Displacement

This research guide provides information and resources such as journal articles, book titles, websites, and government reports/papers on the subject of Women, Peace, and Security

Journal Articles

Click to Donate: visual images, constructing victims and imagining the female refugee
Third World Quarterly, 2011
Datasets on the Challenges of Forced Displacement and Coping Strategies Among Displaced Women in Selected Internally Displaced Persons׳ (IDPs) Camps in Nigeria
Covenant University, 2018
Development-Induced Displacement and Women: The Case of the Tehri Dam, India
Anthropology, 2009
Gender-Based Vulnerability: Combining Pareto Ranking and Spatial Statistics to Model Gender-Based Vulnerability in Rohingya Refugee Settlements in Bangladesh
International Journal of Health Geographics, 2020
Gender Conflict and Displacement: Contesting 'Infantilisation' of Forced Migrant Women
Economic and Political Weekly, 2004
Legal Violence Against Syrian Female Refugees in Turkey
Feminist Legal Studies, 2016
Rural Women, Displacement and the Three Gorges Project
International Institute of Social Studies, 2005
Same But Different. How the Play of Difference Intersects Female Refugee Support Workers’ Constructions of a Common Identity
Social Identities, 2020
Sexual and Gender-based Violence Against Refugee Women: A Hidden Aspect of the Refugee "Crisis"
Reproductive Health Matters, 2016
Taking Gender Seriously in Asylum and Refugee Policies
Global Migration
Where Are the Women? Gender Discrimination in Refugee Policies and Practices
The Invisible Refugees (2003)

Websites

Gender and Migration
UN Migration

Online Articles

Adolescents in Protracted Displacement: Exploring Risks of Age- and Gender-based Violence Among Palestine Refugees in Jordan, Lebanon and the State of Palestine
GAGE 2019
Away from Home: Iranian Women, Displacement Cultural Resistance and Change
University of Toronto Press (UTP), 1999
Climate Disasters, Mass Violence, and Human Mobility in South Sudan: Through a Gender Lens
International Association of Genocide Scholars, Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2022
Contagion of Violence Against Refugee Women in Migration and Displacement
Howard University School of Social Work,
Displacement, Statelessness, and Questions of Gender Equality and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
University of Nottingham, 2009
Gender-based Violence in Conflict and Displacement: Qualitative Findings from Displaced Women in Colombia
Conflict and Health, 2014
Gender-related Mental Health Differences Between Refugees and Non-Refugee Immigrants - A Cross-sectional Register-based study
BMC Public Health, 2011
The Integration Challenges of Female Refugees and Migrants: Where Do We Stand?
Dice Data Analysis, 2021
A Scoping Review of the Health of Conflict-Induced Internally Displaced Women in Africa
Public Health, Women’s Empowerment and Women’s Health Outcomes, 2020
Unlocking Refugee Women’s Potential
RescueWorks, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, 2019
The Women Peace and Security Index: A new lens on forced displacement
International Rescue Committee, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, 2021
Women Refugees and Migrants
UN Women
“Now, There is Nothing Safe”: A Roadmap for Investing in Afghan Women and Girls
Refugees International, 2022

Reports/ Documents

Falling Through the Cracks: Refugee Women and Girls in Germany and Sweden
Women Refugee Commission, 2016
Situation of Afghan women - Summary report of country-wide women's consultations
UN Migration, 2023