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DISCUSSION WEEK 4

Discussion Week 4

Q Consider the points raised from our Cohn readings and from the lecture on the Giles article, “Women Forced to Flee”: Why and how is mobility a gendered issue for forced migrants? In some ways, Doaa and her family were very fortunate because her father was able to flee with the family, and there were kind men with resources who help protect the family at key moments in their journey (for example, the uncle who pays the bribe to cross into Jordan, or Khalid the hotel owner in Egypt who lets them stay for free in the off-season). But what if we imagine, what would have happened to Doaa’s family had something happened to her father? Or if Bassem hadn’t come along and paid for Doaa’s medical care when she was seriously ill? Or if Doaa’s miraculous survival had not led to so much media attention and she just landed in Italy alone? How does gender matter in the migration story of Doaa and her family?

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Women form a huge part of the migrating population because many men decide to stay back. As we see in Doaa’s story and the documentary “For Sama”, many men including Doaa’s brother-in-law and Waad’s husband Humzeh decided to stay back in their country to continue their fights against the regime.