When Refugees are Women:
Emergence of the Issue on the International Agenda

Keiko Osaki

doi:10.25071/1920-7336.21929

When Refugees are Women: Emergence of the Issue on the International Agenda

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Keiko Osaki United Nations

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https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.21929

Keywords:

UNHCR, refugees, United Nations, women, gender, migration geography, feminist research, refugee movement

Abstract

Using the latest refugee statistics available from the United Nations High Commissionerfor Refugees (UNHCR), the author examines, first, the presence of women in refugee populations. Second, she chronologically reviews the efforts of the United Nations and United Nations agencies to heighten awareness regarding the issue, and to resolve specific problems that refugee women face. Lastly, the special needs for women refugees are identified with implications for possible program interventions.

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Author Biography

Keiko Osaki, United Nations

Keiko Osaki is a population affairs officer at the Population Division of the United Nations . Her research is concerned with mechanisms of international population mobility from a gender perspective.

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1997-10-01

How to Cite

Osaki, K. (1997). When Refugees are Women: Emergence of the Issue on the International Agenda. Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, 16(4), 9–16. https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.21929

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Issue

Vol. 16 No. 4 (1997): Refugee and Immigrant Women: An International Perspective

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