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Nazilla Khanlouis an Associate Professor at the LSB Faculty of Nursing and Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. She has conducted extensive research in community-based mental health promotion in general, and mental health promotion among youth and women in multicultural and immigrant-receiving settings in particular. She has published articles, books, reports on youth, immigrant health, and mental health promotion. She is involved in knowledge translation to the public through media (television, radio, newspapers and magazines).
Helene Moussa has had extensive experience as an educator, researcher, and administrator, as well as in policy and organizational development, networking and advocacy. Her last position before her retirement in 1998 was with the World Council of Churches, Geneva Switzerland as executive secretary for uprooted people with regional responsibilities with partners in the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific. She has published numerous books, articles and book reviews on uprooted people and women refugees in particular, as well as on development, education and social & community services and is currently working as an independent consultant on forced migration.
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Introduction | p. 1 |
Reconceptualizing Identities | p. 25 |
A Dialogical Approach to Identity: Implications for Refugee Women | p. 28 |
The Gender Relations of Home, Security, and Transversal Feminism: Refugee Women Reclaiming Their Identity | p. 55 |
Always "Natasha": The Transnational Sex Trafficking of Women | p. 67 |
Reconstituting the Subject: Feminist Politics of Humanitarian Assistance | p. 83 |
Challenging Methodologies: Challenging the Researcher | p. 97 |
Befriending Refugee Women: Refracted Knowledge and Shifting Viewpoints | p. 101 |
"Days You Remember": Japanese Canadian Women and the Violence of Internment | p. 113 |
War, Diaspora. Learning , and Women 's Standpoint | p. 135 |
Being a Writer on Women, Violence, and War | p. 150 |
Rethinking Practices: Creating Spaces for Agency | p. 163 |
The Representation of Refugee Women in our Research and Practice | p. 166 |
Refugee Youth, Gender, and Identity: On the Margins of Mental Health Promotion | p. 173 |
Pray God and Keep Walking: Religion, Gender, Identity, and Refugee Women | p. 180 |
"We Want to Talk , They Give Us Pills ": Identity and Mental Health of Refugee Women from Sudan | p. 196 |
Reviewing Policies: Taking Responsibility for the Rights of Refugee Women | p. 215 |
Protecting Refugee Women: UNHCR and the Gender Equity Challenge | p. 219 |
Social Protection of Refugee Women: Paradoxes, Tensions, and Directions | p. 228 |
The Gender Factor in Refugee Determination and the Effect of "Gender Guidelines" | p. 244 |
Pursuing National Responsibility in a Post-9/11 World: Seeking Asylum in Canada from Gender Persecution | p. 254 |
Notes on Contributors | p. 263 |
References | p. 270 |
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