Abstract
In recent years, there have been a large number of refugees around the world who immigrated due to wars and conflicts in their own regions and political pressure. Turkey has the largest registered refugee population in the world because of the war in Syria as Turkey has 911 km of border with Syria. Migration may lead to changes in power and gender relations in the host community and family. As a result of these, the rate of gender-based violence, child marriages, child labor has increased. In this chapter, our aim is to reveal the link between migration studies and gender perspective through a historical view. In addition to that rights, needs, and problems of refugee women and LGBTI+ are being analyzed with a gender perspective. Lastly, services provided to refugees in Turkey are presented critically in terms of gender-sensitivity, feminist social policies, and feminist social work. Unless the needs of refugee women and LGBTI+ individuals are addressed in a rights-based approach, it will not be possible to eliminate oppressive and discriminatory social policies and social work.
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Cankurtaran, Ö., Albayrak, H., Erdost, T. (2022). Migration and Gender Perspective. In: Baikady, R., Sajid, S., Przeperski, J., Nadesan, V., Rezaul, I., Gao, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Problems. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68127-2_111-1
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