C/S/57. Every Phase of Refugee Experience is a Gendered Experience. Discuss

Gender has a significant impact on the experience of a refugee, where the examples of torture and violence are different between genders in the country of origin. Genders also experience different responses in the cultures they escape to, especially in the case of 'east meets west'. The theories behind refugee and asylum problems are reviewed followed by the discussion of their western interpretation with regard to the treatment of women as opposed to men under the refugee system and the experience of Muslim women in the United Kingdom.