Gendering Migration Across Euro-Mediterranean Borders: Syrian refugee women on the way to the Europe

Abstract

The following paper explores a "hidden" aspect of the Syrian refugee movement across the Euro-Mediterranean that still has not grasped the attention of the researchers: the Syrian women passages across the Central Mediterranean border. Since half a decade, the Syrian women have been experiencing and coping with various challenges across the land and sea borders on the Euro-Mediterranean route. Founded on gender-based traectory tracking and practice analysis approach, the paper focuses on the ways Syrian women experience the Euro-Mediterranean border crossings and how the regional and especially EU-led border security industry affect their lives in the Middle East and Europe. Based on empirical data retrieved through selected interviews, life-story reports and institutional and practice analyses of the situation of Syrian women in Lebanon, and Jordan the paper answers the following questions:-Why and how the Syrian women leave Lebanon and Jordan? What physical, institutional and political borders and border performances they encounter during their journey from North Africa towards the Europe? How the EU border security operations affect their passages and lives?