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Refugee women in Britain and France / Gill Allwood & Khursheed Wadia.
Van Pelt Library HV640.4.G7 A45 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allwood, Gill.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women refugees--Great Britain--Social conditions.
- Women refugees.
- Women refugees--France--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- France.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 210 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- This volume is about the lives of refugee women in Britain and France. It shows how laws and processes designed to meet the needs of men fleeing political persecution often fail to protect women from persecution in their home countries and fail to meet their needs during and after the decision-making process.
- Contents:
- 1. Policies and practices: international, European and national frameworks
- 2. Migration contexts, demographic and social characteristics: refugee women in Britain and France
- 3. Refugee women in Britain
- 4. Refugee women in France
- 5. Refugees, gender and citizenship in Britain and France
- 6. Refugee women and NGOs.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780719071225
- 0719071224
- OCLC:
- 449857764
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