Recording of Afaf Jabiri - Palestinian Refugee Women from Syria to Jordan

In her book Jabiri reveals the extraordinary layers of discrimination suffered by Palestinian women from Syria displaced to Jordan, based on four years of field research in Palestinian camps in Jordan - including unique interviews with Palestinian refugee women, aid workers, and representatives of international organisations and NGOs. The women's experiences show them caught between settler colonialism, militarism, nationalism, refugees' global governance and gender regimes that subjected them to multiple forms of structural gender-based violence.

Jabiri argues for a feminist analysis of settler colonialism's epistemic violence of anti-Palestinianism to expose the history and geopolitics of intersecting oppressive systems that work through and upon gendered bodies of Palestinian refugee women in humanitarian settings.

The book also highlights how local women's groups and frontline workers attempt to fill service gaps. Using a rich theoretical lens to understand the experiences of women in refugee camps, this book attempts to decolonise issues around migration, displacement, refugees and women.

Listen to Afaf Jabiri in the video below.

Disclaimer: This video is of very poor quality because it was filmed by the computer. Unfortunately, the slides are also not visible. However, Afaf Jabiri's story is still very poignant even without images. Apologies for the inconvenience.