Deconstructing Refugee Women's Empowerment: A Comparative Approach to British and French Aid Structures

This book explores how self-identified feminist or women’s organizations in the asylum and charity sectors in the United Kingdom and France attach meanings to and address refugee women’s empowerment in their operations and how these perpetuate or disrupt global hierarchies.

Adopting a feminist, intersectional, and post-colonial approach, this book provides a nuanced assessment on how refugee assistance might move beyond the dominant “vulnerability versus empowerment” dichotomy. Acknowledging...