Publications & Presentations
A Multi-Country Report: Survival Strategies and Health Repercussions in Forced Displacement (Advanced Draft)
Liminality Research Consortium 2024.06.20-Liminality-MultiCountryReport_Advanced-Draft We are pleased to announce the soft launch of the advanced draft of our multi-country report, "Survival Strategies and Health Repercussions in Forced Displacement: A Multi-Country...
BLISS: Rethinking transactional sex in humanitarian settings: Reflections for the way forward
Kahn C et al. (2022), Blog of the International Institute of Social Studies (BLISS) Transactional Sex (TS) is often used as an umbrella term to encompass a wide range of practices ranging from sex work to sexual exploitation and abuse. TS is typically framed in...
Transactional sex in forced displacement: challenging conventional concepts and understandings
Heidari S et al. (2021) The 6th World Conference on Humanitarian Studies. Our preliminary research in Switzerland, France, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan indicates that transactional sex (TS) in forced displacement is practiced by women, men, and people of...
Research on sexuality, reproduction, and intimacy in forced displacement during COVID-19: Considering power dynamics and ethical concerns
Heidari S et al. (2021) The 6th World Conference on Humanitarian Studies. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated gender inequalities, creating multiple vulnerabilities and structural inequities specifically for women and people of diverse sexual orientation and gender...
The Lancet: Research in forced displacement: Guidance for a feminist and decolonial approach
Singh N et al. (2021), The Lancet. The COVID-19 pandemic has deepened inequities and undermined health, human rights, and gender equality for forcibly displaced populations. The United Nations Refugee Agency estimates that, at the end of 2019, there were 79·5 million...
Transactional sex in the wake of COVID-19: sexual and reproductive health and rights of the forcibly displaced
Jacobson L et al. (2020) Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters. The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures put in place to control it have taken an unprecedented economic toll globally. Economists warn that the pandemic could plunge the world into a global recession not...