Gender in Waiting : Men and Women Asylum Seekers in European Reception Facilities
This paper explores how men and women experience their time waiting for a response to applications for international protection, in asylum seekers’ reception centers in Italy and Greece. The experience of waiting in camps can be characterized as on...
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okr-10986-312092021-09-17T05:11:05Z Gender in Waiting : Men and Women Asylum Seekers in European Reception Facilities Demarchi, Giorgia Lenehan, Sara GENDER DISPLACED PERSONS INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION POVERTY ASYLUM GENDER BIAS VULNERABLE GENDER ROLES This paper explores how men and women experience their time waiting for a response to applications for international protection, in asylum seekers’ reception centers in Italy and Greece. The experience of waiting in camps can be characterized as one of extended uncertainty, during which women and men live lives in a new environment, with limited physical and social interactions with local communities. Qualitative data collected in early 2017 reveals that these prolonged waits generate various vulnerabilities, some compounding those already caused by trying journeys, which include gender-specific vulnerabilities. In addition, the paper provides an overview of the aspirations men and women asylum seekers hold as they look at the future. These aspirations are informed by pre-existing gender and social norms, but their development appears to be influenced also by the time in waiting. Specifically, aspirations seem constrained for all by the high levels of uncertainty and duration of the legal process, as well as by limited information, and barriers to interactions with local communities. Thus, men and women miss out on opportunities to qualify or broaden their aspirations, as they wait. Taking into account the different challenges and opportunities men and women asylum seekers face may be helpful in devising more targeted and thus effective policies with regards to asylum seekers during this period in waiting. 2019-02-04T18:22:03Z 2019-02-04T18:22:03Z 2019-01-11 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/532181547235243643/Gender-in-Waiting-Men-and-Women-Asylum-Seekers-in-European-Reception-Facilities http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31209 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Other Social Protection Study Economic & Sector Work Europe and Central Asia Greece Italy |
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GENDER DISPLACED PERSONS INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION POVERTY ASYLUM GENDER BIAS VULNERABLE GENDER ROLES Demarchi, Giorgia Lenehan, Sara Gender in Waiting : Men and Women Asylum Seekers in European Reception Facilities |
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This paper explores how men and women
experience their time waiting for a response to applications
for international protection, in asylum seekers’ reception
centers in Italy and Greece. The experience of waiting in
camps can be characterized as one of extended uncertainty,
during which women and men live lives in a new environment,
with limited physical and social interactions with local
communities. Qualitative data collected in early 2017
reveals that these prolonged waits generate various
vulnerabilities, some compounding those already caused by
trying journeys, which include gender-specific
vulnerabilities. In addition, the paper provides an overview
of the aspirations men and women asylum seekers hold as they
look at the future. These aspirations are informed by
pre-existing gender and social norms, but their development
appears to be influenced also by the time in waiting.
Specifically, aspirations seem constrained for all by the
high levels of uncertainty and duration of the legal
process, as well as by limited information, and barriers to
interactions with local communities. Thus, men and women
miss out on opportunities to qualify or broaden their
aspirations, as they wait. Taking into account the different
challenges and opportunities men and women asylum seekers
face may be helpful in devising more targeted and thus
effective policies with regards to asylum seekers during
this period in waiting. |
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Demarchi, Giorgia Lenehan, Sara |
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Demarchi, Giorgia Lenehan, Sara |
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Demarchi, Giorgia |
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Gender in Waiting : Men and Women Asylum Seekers in European Reception Facilities |
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Gender in Waiting : Men and Women Asylum Seekers in European Reception Facilities |
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Gender in Waiting : Men and Women Asylum Seekers in European Reception Facilities |
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Gender in Waiting : Men and Women Asylum Seekers in European Reception Facilities |
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Gender in Waiting : Men and Women Asylum Seekers in European Reception Facilities |
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gender in waiting : men and women asylum seekers in european reception facilities |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2019 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/532181547235243643/Gender-in-Waiting-Men-and-Women-Asylum-Seekers-in-European-Reception-Facilities http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31209 |
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