Palestinian Refugee Women from Syria to Jordan

"Previous work on the Syrian refugee crisis has overlooked the experiences of Palestinian refugee women and has failed to examine the gendered processes of humanitarianism. This has weakened transnational and intersectional feminist solidarity. In this book Afaf Jabiri examines the experiences of Palestinian women from Syria displaced to Jordan and argues for a feminist analysis of settler-colonialism, particularly in the case of second displacement. Based on four years of field research in camps in Jordan - including interviews with Palestinian refugee women, aid workers, and representatives of international organisations and NGOs in Jordan - the book highlights how local women's groups and frontline workers attempt to fill service gaps. The book reveals how these groups have challenged state politics, the selectivity of aid, and the politics of the gendered development approach in humanitarian settings. Jabiri also argues that local resistance, although important, needs backing by transnational feminist solidarity and actions. Hence this book offers a vital critique to feminists' adoption of a feminist universality-based analysis of the Syrian refugee crisis, which has weakened local feminist and women's rights groups' resistance efforts and contributed to the further marginalisation of Palestinian refugee women from Syria. Using a rich theoretical lens to understand the experiences of women in refugee camps, this book attempts to decolonise issues around migration, displacement, refugees and women"--