Research Article

Exploring the Experiences of Migration, Violence, and Homelessness of Conditional Refugee Women in a Non-Governmental Shelter

Number: 50 December 27, 2023
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Exploring the Experiences of Migration, Violence, and Homelessness of Conditional Refugee Women in a Non-Governmental Shelter

Abstract

At the intersection of structural factors such as patriarchy, globalization, racism, and categories like age, ethnicity, language, religion, social capital, and immigration status, women experience various phenomena of discrimination and inequality. Although the effects of violence against women have universal characteristics, social categories such as education, marital status, ethnicity, and social capital differentiate women’s experiences. This study aims to analyze the migration, violence, and homelessness experiences of women staying in a shelter as conditional refugees in Istanbul. Shelters are places where women who are exposed to violence and deprived of social support stay. In-depth interviews were conducted with 12 women staying in this shelter and 4 themes were discovered: “women’s experiences of violence”, “divorce processes and social violence”, “the process of coming to the association, identity and employment problems in the struggle to set up a new life”, and “future expectations”. It was found that women experience all sorts of partner violence as well as violence of immigration, their families apply social violence during divorce periods, shelters which provide rights-based social services help women in post-divorce processes, and women’s experiences differ at the intersection of their future expectations and social categories such as health, age, education, occupation, and immigration status. The main suggestions of this study include increasing rights-based social services for women, and gender, ethnicity, and culture-sensitive practices.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Sociology (Other)

Journal Section

Research Article

Early Pub Date

December 21, 2023

Publication Date

December 27, 2023

Submission Date

January 12, 2023

Acceptance Date

July 18, 2023

Published in Issue

Year 2023 Number: 50

APA
Ercan, F., & Afyonoğlu, M. F. (2023). Exploring the Experiences of Migration, Violence, and Homelessness of Conditional Refugee Women in a Non-Governmental Shelter. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 50, 155-170. https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.1407734
AMA
1.Ercan F, Afyonoğlu MF. Exploring the Experiences of Migration, Violence, and Homelessness of Conditional Refugee Women in a Non-Governmental Shelter. SEFAD. 2023;(50):155-170. doi:10.21497/sefad.1407734
Chicago
Ercan, Fatümatüzehra, and Meliha Funda Afyonoğlu. 2023. “Exploring the Experiences of Migration, Violence, and Homelessness of Conditional Refugee Women in a Non-Governmental Shelter”. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, nos. 50: 155-70. https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.1407734.
EndNote
Ercan F, Afyonoğlu MF (December 1, 2023) Exploring the Experiences of Migration, Violence, and Homelessness of Conditional Refugee Women in a Non-Governmental Shelter. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 50 155–170.
IEEE
[1]F. Ercan and M. F. Afyonoğlu, “Exploring the Experiences of Migration, Violence, and Homelessness of Conditional Refugee Women in a Non-Governmental Shelter”, SEFAD, no. 50, pp. 155–170, Dec. 2023, doi: 10.21497/sefad.1407734.
ISNAD
Ercan, Fatümatüzehra - Afyonoğlu, Meliha Funda. “Exploring the Experiences of Migration, Violence, and Homelessness of Conditional Refugee Women in a Non-Governmental Shelter”. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi. 50 (December 1, 2023): 155-170. https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.1407734.
JAMA
1.Ercan F, Afyonoğlu MF. Exploring the Experiences of Migration, Violence, and Homelessness of Conditional Refugee Women in a Non-Governmental Shelter. SEFAD. 2023;:155–170.
MLA
Ercan, Fatümatüzehra, and Meliha Funda Afyonoğlu. “Exploring the Experiences of Migration, Violence, and Homelessness of Conditional Refugee Women in a Non-Governmental Shelter”. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, no. 50, Dec. 2023, pp. 155-70, doi:10.21497/sefad.1407734.
Vancouver
1.Fatümatüzehra Ercan, Meliha Funda Afyonoğlu. Exploring the Experiences of Migration, Violence, and Homelessness of Conditional Refugee Women in a Non-Governmental Shelter. SEFAD. 2023 Dec. 1;(50):155-70. doi:10.21497/sefad.1407734

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