Building cultural citizenship with women seeking refuge and asylum

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“Women’s rights are not privileges to be earned or awarded to a few. To have meaning they must be afforded to all women, wherever they are born”.

..There is still a dearth of research on women seeking asylum, the asylum system is still gender-biased, pregnant women, women survivors of sexual violence and children are still detained, and women are still, assumed overall, to be dependents and followers of men. Continue reading…

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