Displacement, Human Rights and Sexual and Reproductive Health
Conceptualizing Gender Protection Gaps in Latin America
By Natalia Cintra, David Owen and Pía Riggirozzi
Published
Jun 19, 2023Page count
206 pagesISBN
978-1529222791Dimensions
203 x 127 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Jun 19, 2023Page count
206 pagesISBN
978-1529222807Dimensions
203 x 127 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Jun 19, 2023Page count
206 pagesISBN
978-1529222807Dimensions
203 x 127 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
Displacement, Human Rights and Sexual and Reproductive Health
Focusing on the flight of women and girls from Venezuela, this book examines the gendered nature of forced displacement and the ways in which the failures of protection regimes to be sensitive to displacement’s gendered character affect women and girls, and their sexual and reproductive health.
Highlighting how categorical legal distinctions between ‘refugees’ and ‘migrants’ fail to capture the dynamics of forced migration in Latin America, it investigates how the operation of this categorical divide generates responsibility and protection gaps in relation to female forced migrants which act as determinants of sexual and reproductive health. Drawing on the voices of displaced women, it argues that a robust political ethics of protection of the forcibly displaced must encompass all necessary fleers and be responsive to the gendered character of forced displacement and particularly to effective access to sexual and reproductive health rights.
“A conceptually rich and practically grounded analysis that puts the human rights of women and girls at the forefront of reform of the international system of refugee protection.” Alex Aleinikoff, The New School for Social Research
“This is a powerful and important book, revealing the complex gendering of the migration experience and the categories that serve to exclude women and others from protection and support.” Heaven Crawley, United Nations University
Natalia Cintra is Research Fellow for the ESRC-funded project Redressing Gendered Health Inequalities of Displaced Women and Girls in Contexts of Protracted Crisis in Central and South America (ReGHID) at the University of Southampton.
David Owen is Professor of Social and Political Philosophy in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Southampton, and co-investigator in the ReGHID project.
Pía Riggirozzi is Professor of Global Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Southampton, and Principal Investigator in the ReGHID project.
Introduction
1. The Gendered Character of Forced Migration
2. Problematizing the Migrant–Refugee Distinction in Latin America: Responsibility and Protection Gaps
3. Latin American Normative Frameworks of Migration and Asylum
4. Protecting the Human Right to Health of Women and Girls from Venezuela as Necessary Fleers
5. Responsibility and the Ethics of Forced Displacement in South America
Conclusion
