Displacement, Human Rights and Sexual and Reproductive Health: Conceptualizing Gender Protection Gaps in Latin America

by Natalia Cintra, David Owen, Pía Riggirozzi

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529222807
Publisher:	Bristol University Press
Publication date:	06/19/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	206
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

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.

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.
Pía Riggirozzi is Professor of Global Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Southampton. She is also Principal Investigator for the ReGHID project.

Table of Contents

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

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“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