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Legal Aspects of Conflict-Induced Migration by Women

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People migrate to avoid anticipated conflict, to flee ongoing conflict, and to escape the consequences of past conflict. The capacity to migrate and the migratory experience itself are inflected by gender. The purpose of this paper is to survey how international legal norms and institutions frame and respond to conflict-induced migration, with particular attention to the impact of gender on access to legal status and protection (Martin 2003).

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  1. University of Toronto, 78 Queen’s Park, M5S 2C5, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Audrey Macklin (Faculty of Law)

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  1. Institute for the Studies of, Georgetown University, Whitehaven Street 3300, Washington, 20007, U.S.A.

    Susan Forbes Martin

  2. Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Main St. 292, Cambridge, 02139, U.S.A.

    John Tirman

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Macklin, A. (2009). Legal Aspects of Conflict-Induced Migration by Women. In: Forbes Martin, S., Tirman, J. (eds) Women, Migration, and Conflict. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2825-9_2

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