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Book SynopsisFocusing 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction 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
