Mobilizing the women, peace and security agenda for refugee women's participation: Committees and cooperatives in Turkey
Women's Studies International Forum, cilt.109, 2025 (SSCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 109
- Basım Tarihi: 2025
- Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103052
- Dergi Adı: Women's Studies International Forum
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, IBZ Online, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Periodicals Index Online, American History and Life, Educational research abstracts (ERA), Gender Studies Database, Historical Abstracts, Index Islamicus, Political Science Complete, Psycinfo, Social services abstracts, Sociological abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
- Anahtar Kelimeler: NAP, Participation, Refugee Women, Turkey, Women's initiatives, WPS
- Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This article explores the potential for mobilizing the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda to promote refugee women's participation in decision-making processes in Turkey. Although WPS predominantly focuses on women in conflict zones, we argue that it can offer a meaningful avenue of engagement for refugee women in host countries. In the absence of a coherent national action plan in Turkey, we investigate to what extent the scattered and peripheral initiatives of refugee women has the potential to draft and implement WPS and how, in turn, mobilization under WPS helps consolidate and mainstream these initiatives. This article examines refugee women's committees and cooperatives and shows how they can meaningfully localize international policy and leverage it for refugee women's participation. We demonstrate that committees and cooperatives offer a space to discuss, challenge, and give nuance to refugee policies in Turkey, and WPS can act as an essential lever to reinforce and amplify such initiatives.