Gendered vulnerability and return migration
This article discusses gendered conceptions of vulnerability at play in destination states’ formulation and implementation of return policies. Based on qualitative interviews in Norway with asylum reception centre personnel, social workers who work with irregular migrants, and asylum seeker...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Victimology Society of Serbia and University of Belgrade, Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation
2017-01-01
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| Series: | Temida |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/1450-6637/2017/1450-66371702149P.pdf |
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| Summary: | This article discusses gendered conceptions of vulnerability at play in
destination states’ formulation and implementation of return policies. Based
on qualitative interviews in Norway with asylum reception centre personnel,
social workers who work with irregular migrants, and asylum seekers whose
asylum applications have been rejected, this article argues that some forms
of vulnerability are more easily recognized by authorities, frontline
personnel and migrants themselves. Conceptual blind spots have consequences
for access to assistance and protection, and may exacerbate vulnerabilities.
While return and reintegration programmes offer particular benefits for
returnees considered ‘vulnerable’, research by the authors has found an
unwillingness to apply this label beyond female victims of human trafficking
for the purpose of prostitution. The reasons for this, this article argues,
are both institutional and cultural. |
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| ISSN: | 1450-6637 2406-0941 |