Structural determinants of GBV against refugee youth: Advancing critical theoretical perspectives

Negar Alamdar

doi:10.25071/1929-8471.21

Authors

Negar Alamdar York University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/1929-8471.21

Keywords:

integration, dislocation, gender-based violence, refugee youth

Abstract

The scholarship on gender-based violence (GBV) against refugee youth has succeeded in highlighting the significance of micro social psychological or situational analyses. Missing, however, are analyses that incorporate structural approaches, especially as informed by critical feminist and critical race theories. This review not only suggests ways in which structural analyses may proceed by further recommending the conceptual utility of integration and dislocation as key concepts in refugee studies, GBV and analyses of youth. These concepts mediate the relationships between two fundamental and prevailing units in the social theorizing – micro and macro-analyses. By incorporating more holistic, relational and critical foci regarding systems of domination (misogyny, racism, youth discrimination, homophobia) within the political economy and culture and their embedded institutions, more systemic and long term remedies are recommended.

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