In L. Sadiki & L. Saleh (Eds.), COVID-19 and risk society across the MENA region: Assessing governance, democracy, and inequality (pp. 195–214). I.B. Tauris, Bloomsbury Publishing.

with Ravza Altuntaş-Çakır and Ayşegül Gökalp Kutlu

The COVID-19 pandemic created a “double emergency” for refugees by limiting access to health services and essential social, economic, and educational resources. For refugee women and girls, these challenges were compounded by gender-based vulnerabilities, including increased domestic violence, early marriage, school dropouts, unemployment, and lack of access to online education and healthcare. In this chapter, we adopt a gender-based, intersectional approach to examine how refugee women in Turkey experienced heightened insecurity during the pandemic. We draw on feminist International Relations (IR) theory, which expands the concept of security beyond state-centered frameworks to include threats like gender-based violence, poverty, and ecological degradation. We offer a theoretical discussion of this multidimensional notion of security and analyze how refugee women navigate the intersecting impacts of displacement, gender, and the pandemic.

In 50 Soruda Türkiye’nin Göç Politikaları (pp. 46–57). Altınbaş Üniversitesi Yayınları.

This chapter examines the growing complexity of global migration governance, emphasizing that nation-states can no longer manage migration alone. It highlights the role of non-state actors in shaping policies and overseeing implementation, while noting their limited influence compared to states. The chapter discusses the challenges caused by the absence of a supranational authority to enforce commitments and critiques how migration governance often prioritizes state and corporate interests over migrant and refugee rights. It also covers the roles of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), with a focus on Turkey’s cooperation with these organizations in managing migration.