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Representing Violence Against Women: Asylum, Voice, and Testimony

Representing Violence Against Women: Asylum, Voice, and Testimony

Colby, Georgina
Freedman, Jane
Ahmed, Zlakha

Hardcover

Series: Proceedings of the British Academy

Literary CriticismGeneral Gender StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1836245653
ISBN13: 9781836245650
Publisher: British Academy
Published: Jan 6 2026
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.39
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This timely interdisciplinary volume brings academic research into dialogue with women who have experienced the asylum process, activists, and NGOs. It reveals the obstacles that women are confronted with during asylum processes, when relaying their testimonies that involve violence. Women's voices are marginalized and often erased because of multiple barriers within refugee status determination procedures and asylum and refugee reception systems. Conditions need to change so that women can voice their testimonies and know that they will be listened to and heard, and that their voices and experiences will count within asylum processes and lead to effective protection. This book is a site of knowledge exchange between women survivors and activists, and policy makers. It contains first-hand accounts of the asylum processes by women survivors and activists and offers examples of how the arts and humanities might open up avenues of expression and testimony for women seeking asylum through practices of co-production, creating safe spaces of representation for women to talk about their lived experiences of violence and exile but also, and crucially, resistance and resilience.

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