The Syrian refugees are here, and they are struggling – now what?

• In Event: Imagining a Mobile Intersectional Feminist Future: Rethinking Refugees, Responses to State Violence, and Post-Conflict Survival

Abstract

The arrival of Syrian refugees to the West has prompted countless informal and grassroots solidarity groups, initiatives and programs offering basic supports and services. A successful subset of these programs are food-related, collective kitchen initiatives that invites refugee women to prepare and sell meals. Using collective kitchen examples as case-studies, this paper brings together insights from critical humanitarian and transnational feminist theories to examine how the these initiatives help to represent refugees differently.

Presenter

• Gada Mahrouse, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University