Summary
Seminar: African Refugee Women and Gendered (In)visibility
This was a seminar held in partnership between WiRL and the Department of African and African American Studies at Brandeis University. We were delighted to have a brilliant speaker (Rose Jaji) and equally brilliant moderator (Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso) for this event addressing the gendered invisibility of refugee women outside their specific African cultural and political contexts.
Rose Jaji is senior researcher at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS). Her research areas of interest are migration/refugees and conflict and peacebuilding. She has published peer-reviewed articles on migrants/refugees and gender, refugees and social technology, identity, asylum seekers, and border crossing, return migration as well as gender and peacebuilding. She is the author of Deviant Destinations: Zimbabwe and North to South Migration (Lexington Books, 2020) and Non-migration amidst Zimbabwe’s Economic Meltdown (Lexington Books, 2023). Her work is also published as blog posts, policy briefs, newsletter articles, and opinion pieces.
You can see Dr Jaji’s presentation slides here
Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Brandeis University & co-author of African Refugees (Indiana UP) and a member of WiRL’s Steering Group.
