Between Home and Refugee Camps: Tracing Gendered Violence against Muslim Women in Maria Von Welser’s No Refuge for Women

Abstract

The purpose of this research paper is to analyze Maria Von Welser’s book No Refuge for Women for the exploration of the status of the Muslim refugee women in the backdrop of the theoretical underpinning propounded by Jane Freedman in her book. Maria Von Welser in her book attempts to validate Muslim women’s miseries not only in their territorial boundaries but also across the borders. They are matter of no concern in asylums because they are discriminated in the camps on the basis of gender. The current research also investigates her book as a representative voice of marginalized section of Muslim refugees and it vividly articulates its focus on the evidence from the text to trace that there is no room for this suppressed group. Jane Freedman’s theoretical concept of asylum and refugees has been applied for the evaluation of the selected text. Freedman examines the foreign oppressive influence on colonized countries especially with reference to the double marginalization of Muslim women. This study is qualitative and textual analysis is used as a research method.