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40 Refuge 1 (2024)

handle is hein.journals/rfgcjr40 and id is 1 raw text is: Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees / Refuge : revue canadienne sur les refugies 2024, Vol. 40, No. 1, 1-17 https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.41162 Gender and Asylum Seeking in a European Borderland: Intersectional Discriminations and Lessened Citizenship Chara Karagiannopouloua , Evangelia Tastsogloub f and Sandy Petriniotic HISTORY Published 2024-07-26 ABSTRACT This paper presents a feminist analysis of the manifold and intertwined discriminations faced by asylum- seeking women in a European borderland-specifically, Greece. It explores how these discriminations op- erate across law, policy, practice, and discourse, while highlighting the dynamic interplay of intersectional discriminations with citizenship rights and practices. Data were collected through 35 interviews with asylum- seeking women. The analysis shows that (a) intersectional discriminations occur at both macro- and micro- levels, reproducing and consolidating the women's lessened citizenship, while (b) lessened citizenship reinforces their precarious status and leaves them vulnerable to multiform, multi-sited gender-based violence. KEYWORDS lessened citizenship; intersectional discriminations; gender-based violence; asylum-seeking women; Greece; Europe R£SUME Cet article presente une analyse feministe des discriminations multiples et entrecroisees auxquelles sont con- frontees les femmes demandeuses d'asile dans une « region frontaliere » de l'Europe, en l'occurrence la Grece. II explore la maniere dont ces discriminations operent a travers la loi, les politiques, les pratiques et les discours, tout en soulignant l'interaction dynamique des discriminations intersectionnelles avec les droits et les pratiques en matiere de citoyennete. Les donnees ont ete recueillies au moyen de 35 entretiens avec des femmes demandeuses d'asile. L'analyse demontre que (a) les discriminations intersectionnelles se produisent a la fois au niveau macro et micro, reproduisant et consolidant la citoyennete « reduite » des femmes, tandis que (b) la citoyennete « reduite » renforce leur statut precaire et les rend vulnerables a une violence basee sur le genre qui se manifeste de maniere multiforme et multi-situde. INTRODUCTION gues that discriminations based on the inter- sections of gender, race, and otherness are This paper offers a feminist analysis of inter- at the core of their citizenship. We attempt secting discriminations-operating through here to contribute to the discussion about law, policy, practice, and discourse-against asylum seeking, gender, and citizenship by asylum-seeking women, survivors of gender- examining our empirical material through based violence (GBV), in a European border- the lens of citizenship theory and the notion land-Greece-during the 2010s and ar- of situated intersectionality (Yuval-Davis, CONTACT a (Corresponding author) 0 charakara@panteion.gr, Department of International, European and Area Studies, Panteion University, Athens, Greece b ® evie.tastsoglou@smu.ca, Department of Sociology and the Department of Global Development Studies, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada C0 sandy.petrinioti@smu.ca, Department of Global Development Studies, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada © Karagiannopoulou, C. et al. 2024

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