Practicing Conformity, Resistance and Resilience to Gender-Based Violence: Women Asylum Seekers in the Eastern Mediterranean
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Abstract
Abstract: In this paper, we use semi-structured interviews with 35 asylum-seeking women to elicit a narrative of their forced migration journey which included a stop in Turkey, a perilous sea crossing facilitated by smugglers and a stay in a European Union borderland, Greece. We explore their experiences with a focus on the adversities they faced, especially gender-based violence, woven in the broader violence of mobility under restrictive border and asylum regimes. Their interaction with the environment reveals a range of responses of conformity with, and resistance to, unequal social relations and discriminatory cultural practices. We conceptualize these responses as resilience, a process in the making, shaped by practices – thoughts, emotions and embodied acts – rather than an achieved state. We understand resilience as a process built through the use of personal but also communal resources, according to the social ecology model. In this paper, we focus on the individual resilient responses, the "resilient moves" of women in the refugee context of the Eastern Mediterranean. At the same time, the women's identifying and naming of the hardships they face point to the social structures that these hardships are rooted in, thus requiring interventions in social policies and institutional practices. Résumé: Dans cet article, nous utilisons des entretiens semi-structurés avec 35 femmes demandeuses d'asile pour obtenir un récit de leur voyage de migration forcée qui comprenait un arrêt en Turquie, une traversée périlleuse de la mer facilitée par des passeurs et un séjour dans un pays frontalier de l'Union européenne, la Grèce. Nous explorons leurs expériences en nous concentrant sur les adversités auxquelles elles ont été confrontées, en particulier la violence sexiste, qui s'inscrit dans la violence plus large de la mobilité dans le cadre de régimes restrictifs en matière de frontières et d'asile. Leur interaction avec l'environnement révèle une série de réponses de conformité et de résistance aux relations sociales inégales et aux pratiques culturelles discriminatoires. Nous concevons ces réponses comme de la résilience, un processus en cours d'élaboration, façonné par des pratiques – pensées, émotions et actes incarnés – plutôt que comme un état atteint. Nous concevons la résilience comme un processus qui se construit par l'utilisation de ressources personnelles mais aussi collectives, selon le modèle de l'écologie sociale. Dans cet article, nous nous concentrons sur les réponses résilientes individuelles, les "mouvements résilients" des femmes dans le contexte des réfugiés de la Méditerranée orientale. En même temps, l'identification et la désignation par les femmes des difficultés auxquelles elles sont confrontées mettent en évidence les structures sociales dans lesquelles ces difficultés sont enracinées, ce qui nécessite des interventions au niveau des politiques sociales et des pratiques institutionnelles.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".