"It was not Syria but the war that gave us women's rights!" How forced displacement can be a catalyst for women's empowerment of refugees in Lebanon

Abstract

This qualitative research seeks to explore the paradoxical relationship of forced displacement and the empowerment of Syrian refugee women in the Levantine protracted refugee context. To understand this phenomenon an in-depth literature review, ethnographic fieldwork and twelve qualitative interviews with Syrian women were conducted in two Lebanese refugee sites