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Motherhood in the context of migration and with a child with disability has been rarely researched. How do mothers of children with disabilities organize their everyday lives when they are migrants, often do not speak the spoken language of the new country and are not familiar with the local support system due to their socialization in other countries? Do they have access to social assistance and know how to reach it? Can digital communication, through its fluid, informal and accessible character, be a support and the space of protagonism for migrant mothers? Or up to where does digitality no longer reach? What role do local infrastructures play in their routines and to which services can they access? This is what I am dealing with in my dissertation and will present in my poster presentation.As a migrant and mother of a child with disabilities, I am an activist in the social movement of parents with disabled children in Germany. My path from practice to research allows field access to a group that is usually not publicly visible. At the same time, this requires methodological and methodological openness and reflexivity in and after the empirical phase through the feedback of what I see in the field. The research was intended to be highly participatory, which became difficult to implement given the heavy burden on mothers. As a solution to this, individual interviews were conducted in the first empirical phase, and asynchronous online focus groups with a second group of migrant women will be implemented in the next step. In my poster I will present partial results from my emperical research and show important dynamics in the realities from my sampling. 

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child with disability, motherhood, migrant mother, migration, disability, critical disability studies, care studies, gender studies, social justice, interculturality, Germany, care work, social work

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United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 was enacted in 2000 to promote a gender perspective to peacemaking.  Various efforts to appraise women, peace, and security (WPS) programs have focused heavily on evaluating the ways in which these WPS programs increase women’s representation and participation in official peacemaking and peacekeeping efforts. What seems to be missing in on-going efforts to evaluate WPS programs is the posing of critical questions about the root causes of conflict. Few studies, if any, analyze how forms of structural oppression, patriarchy, misogyny, and militarized masculinity lead to violence and armed conflict.This presentation focuses on a re-tooled policy analysis framework for WPS policies and programs incorporating an intersectional and critical feminist perspective (Hermoso & Luca Sugawara, 2016). This intersectional and critical feminist policy analysis model of WPS programs explicitly connects peacebuilding with efforts to achieve gender justice. Kirk and Okazawa-Rey (2013, 2019) define intersectional feminism as a philosophy of liberation from gender oppression and gender-based discrimination informed by an awareness of the inter-relatedness of different systems of oppression. Evaluating WPS policies and programs from the prism of critical and intersectional feminism allows for a more multi-dimensional analysis of violence and conflict.Building on Razon-Abad and Miller’s (1997) policy evaluation model, this critical and intersectional feminist policy evaluation framework defines policy success in terms of three elements: policy gains, civil society gains, and democracy gains. Policy gains are evaluated in terms of WPS programs’ efforts in realizing gender justice. Civil society gains manifest in stronger peace constituencies with meaningful participation of women and femmes civil society organizations, and gender justice in the public and private spheres. Democracy gains mean broadening of political space for women, femmes, transgender, and non-binary communities to participate in public life.  Implications for connecting gender justice to current peacebuilding programs will be explored.

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critical feminism, intersectional feminism, peacebuilding, gender justice, policy evaluation

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The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24th 2022, led to a massive disruption in the lives of Ukrainian people who decided to flee the country. It is estimated that more than 17 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, while over 6 million Ukrainian refugees are recorded globally. Romania received more than 3 million Ukrainian refugees (more than 140,000 registering for assistance), majority women and childrenThe research was carried out by the Association of Schools of Social Work from Romania in the period October-December 2022 in the framework of the program developed by CARE International and Sera Foundation. It comprised 20 focus groups (n=141, out of which 76 women, 26 adolescent girls and 21 adolescent boys, 12 men, 6 Roma men), interviews with ten humanitarian aid experts and seven life stories. Data revealed a series of gender relevant aspects concerning (i) the institutional governmental and nongovernmental mechanism put in place in support for refugees and, on the other hand, (ii) the perception of the refugees themselves about their needs, problems and support received.Romania, with limited prior experience in the area of humanitarian assistance, struggled with the flow of refugees and confronted with shortage of human and financial resources succeeded in putting into action a support strategy that is highly appreciated by the beneficiaries. Ukrainian refugees mainly appreciate the housing programme, the efforts for food and clothes supply provided by the Government and local and international organizations, the safe general social environment and the kindness of Romanians in general. The study showed that there is a need to strengthen gender mainstreaming of the whole response and\ a need to improve services and assistance in terms of gender-sensitivity - services for women and girls, youth, and children, including GBV services.

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refugees, Ukraine, gender, access to services, Romania

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Gender and sexualized violence are global public health issues. The World Health Organization (2018) estimates that 736 million women (or one in seven) experience sexual intimate partner violence, non-partner sexual violence, or both, at least once in their lives. Gender-based violence disproportionately affects poor and low-income women (UN Women, n.d.). According to the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (2020), seven out of ten trafficking victims are women and girls. Less than forty percent of women who experience gender-based violence seek out help (United Nations Economic and Social Affairs, 2015).\ \ \ At least 158 countries have enacted laws addressing domestic violence (UN Women, n.d.). While the enactment of such policies and measures is an important step, among many, to end sexual and gender-based violence, it is also equally important to evaluate the efficacy of these policies and programs in achieving this goal.\ \ \ Building on the work of Murshid and Bowen (2018), this paper will present a trauma-informed policy analysis framework for evaluating sexual and gender-based policies and programs. A trauma-informed perspective recognizes the trauma histories and experiences of individuals and communities and how these impact on current challenges they experience. Fallot and Harris (2006) cite the basic principles of trauma-informed practice including safety, trustworthiness, choice, collaboration, empowerment, and intersectionality.\  This paper will present an appraisal of existing gender-based violence policies and programs and the extent to which they uphold these six principles. Trauma-informed policies contextualize responses to gender-based violence to the localities of survivors/victims and foster collaborative social action.\ \ \ 

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gender-based violence, trauma-informed, policy analysis, violence against women