Gendering Migration Across Euro-Mediterranean Borders: Syrian refugee women on the way to the Europe

Yıl 2017, Cilt: 4 Sayı: 2, 75 - 101, 29.12.2017

Nurcan O. Baklacıoğlu

https://doi.org/10.26513/tocd.351439

Cited By: 3

Öz

The following
paper explores a “hidden” aspect of the Syrian refugee movement across the Euro-Mediterranean
that still has not grasped the attention of the researchers: the Syrian women
passages across the Central Mediterranean border. Since half a decade, the
Syrian women have been experiencing and coping various challenges across the
land and sea borders on the Euro-Mediterranean route. Founded on gender-based
“practice approach”, the following paper focuses on the ways Syrian women
experience the Euro-Mediterranean border passages and how the regional and
especially EU-led border security industry affect their lives in the Middle
East and Europe. Based on empirical data retrieved through selected interviews,
life-story reports and institutional and practice analyses of the situation of
Syrian women in Lebanon, and Jordan the paper answers the following questions:

-Why and how the
Syrian women leave Lebanon and Jordan? What physical, institutional and
political borders and border performances they encounter during their journey from
North Africa towards the Europe? How the EU border security operations affect
their passages and lives?

Anahtar Kelimeler

Euro-Mediterranean, refugee women, Lebanon, Jordan, Central Mediterranean, border security, EU, EBCGA

Gendering Migration Across Euro-Mediterranean Borders: Syrian refugee women on the way to the Europe

Öz

Araştırma, Suriye mülteci hareketinin Avrupa-Akdeniz hattında yaşanan ve henüz araştırmacılar arasında çalışılmamış bir boyutunu ele almaktadır: Suriyeli kadınların Avrupa-Akdeniz sınır geçişleri esnasında karşı karşıya kaldıkları pratikler ve sorunlar. Savaşın başlamasından bu yana Suriyeli kadınlar Avrupa-Akdeniz hattında kara ve deniz sınırlarında dolaşmakta ve geçiş yapmakta ve çok farklı uygulama ve sorunlarla karşı karşıya kalmakta ve mücadele etmektedir. Toplumsal cinsiyet perspektifiyle uygulamanın analizine odaklanan bir yaklaşımla ele alınan çalışma, Lübnan, Ürdün ve Libya’da AB ülkeleri yönünde göçe yönelen Suriyeli kadınların sınır deneyimlerini araştırmakta ve AB’nin finanse ettiği sınır güvenlik operasyonlarının kadınların yaşamları üzerindeki etkisini saptamaya çalışmaktadır. Suriyeli kadınlarla sınır geçişleri konusunda yapılan seçili mülakatlara, kadınların kendileri tarafından dile getirilen hikâyeler, raporlar ve makalelerden toplanan verilere dayalı çalışma, Lübnan ve Ürdün’de Suriyeli kadınların karşı karşıya kaldıkları sorunları özetledikten sonra şu sorulara cevap aramaktadır: Neden Suriyeli kadınlar Lübnan ve Ürdün’den göç eder? Ne tür ikincil hareketlerde bulunurlar? Avrupa istikametindeki yolculuklarında ne tür fiziksel, kurumsal ve siyasi sınırları aşmak durumunda kalmakta? AB’nin sınır güvenliği operasyonlarıkadınların sınır geçişi öncesi ve sonrası yaşamlarını nasıl etkilemektedir?

Anahtar Kelimeler

Euro-Mediterranean, Lebanon, Jordan, refugee women, EU BORDER SECURITY, EBCGA

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