Life Stories of Three Syrian Migrant Women in Turkey: Rights and Gender Equality Experiences
Life Stories of Three Syrian Migrant Women in Turkey: Rights and Gender Equality Experiences

Author(s): Hulya Sahin Erbektas
Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: forced migration; women rights; gender equality; life story;
Summary/Abstract: This paper includes the life stories of three women who migrated to Turkey from Syria through forced migration. Thoughts of Syrian women, who participated in the research, related to gender roles and gender equality; and their gains in new rights and new freedom fields provided by civil rights after coming to Turkey are discussed based on the participants' standpoints. This research uses one of the qualitative data collection techniques "life story". Life stories of these women consist of their life in Syria, migration process and their life in Turkey. This paper contains answers to these questions: "What is the life story method", "What are the contributions of life story method to the feminist standpoint approach, and to the participants who share their story"

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