Palestinian Refugee Women from Syria to Jordan

Decolonizing the Geopolitics of Displacement

Afaf Jabiri

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9780755644827
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Scienze sociali
• Subtopic: Studi sullo sviluppo globale

Based on four years of field research in Palestinian camps in Jordan - including unique interviews with Palestinian refugee women, aid workers, and representatives of international organisations and NGOs in Jordan - the book reveals the extraordinary layers of discrimination suffered by Palestinian women from Syria displaced to Jordan. The women's experiences show them caught between settler colonialism, militarism, nationalism, refugees' global governance and gender regimes that subjected them to multiple forms of structural gender-based violence. The book argues for a feminist analysis of settler colonialism's epistemic violence of anti-Palestinianism to expose the history and geopolitics of intersecting oppressive systems that work through and upon gendered bodies of Palestinian refugee women in humanitarian settings. The book also highlights how local women's groups and frontline workers attempt to fill service gaps. Using a rich theoretical lens to understand the experiences of women in refugee camps, this book attempts to decolonise issues around migration, displacement, refugees and women. Previous work on the Syrian refugee crisis has overlooked the very particular experiences of Palestinian refugee women, which has weakened feminist analysis of gendered processes of humanitarianism, and feminist transnational and intersectional solidarity. This book offers a vital critique of how feminists' adoption of a universality-based analysis of the Syrian refugee crisis has contributed to the further marginalisation of Palestinian refugee women from Syria.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Dedication Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Anti-Palestinianism: Epistemic violence of settler colonialism
• 1 Nakba: A juncture-point in history – Gender and displacement
• 2 Legacy of Jordan’s entanglement with the settler colonial project in Palestine
• 3 Governance of refugees: Life-long precarity and anti-Palestinian policies
• 4 The Palestinian condition: Gendering multiplicities of dispossession
• 5 Masculinist manoeuvring: Doing gender or righting wrongs
• 6 Multi-layered misrecognition, claims for justice and GBV
• Conclusion: Epistemic violence, intersectionality and decoloniality of feminist knowledge
• References
• Index
• Imprint