http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/victimization Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sat, 09 May 2026 02:00:08 -0400 Sat, 09 May 2026 02:00:08 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1060/discussing-refugee-women-speechlessness-helplessness-and-bodies-as-facts By Marion Provencher Langlois - “Not all silences are equal,” writes Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1997, p.27). Not everyone, I add, possesses the power to silence a person or a group of people. In this research paper, I use gender as an analytical tool to examine the way refugee women are silenced through the transformation of their bodies into facts, which as a result turns them into the most helpless and speechless of all refugees. In the first part of this essay, I give an overview of the creation of the Convention relating to the status of Refugees, adopted in 1951. I briefly comment on how it has been introduced... Tue, 25 Aug 2015 05:17 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1060/discussing-refugee-women-speechlessness-helplessness-and-bodies-as-facts