@article{Smith_2015, title={Stories Told By, For, and About Women Refugees: Engendering Resistance}, volume={14}, url={https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1174}, abstractNote={In this paper I discuss some of the ways women’s narratives reflect how they make sense of seeking asylum<a href="file:///C:/Users/Sara/Downloads/1174-3328-1-SM.doc#_ftn1"><sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup></a> and how narratives can become a means of resistance. The interview data comes from a qualitative study<a href="file:///C:/Users/Sara/Downloads/1174-3328-1-SM.doc#_ftn2"><sup><sup>[2]</sup></sup></a> looking at the in-depth narratives of seventeen women who had all made a claim for asylum in the United Kingdom (UK). The women who participated had been living in the UK for different periods of time, ranging from a couple of months to seven years. Aged between early twenties to mid-fifties, they came from fourteen different countries of origin. I utilised an in-depth narrative approach to interviewing women which offered a number of distinct advantages: allowing for women’s narratives to be the focus of the study; capturing the particularity, complexity and richness of each woman’s story; and highlighting women’s agency in storytelling (Mauthner and Doucet, 1998, 2003). Interviews lasted between one and a half to three hours and were conducted in a wide range of different locations in the UK. <div><br /> <hr size="1" /><div><p><a href="file:///C:/Users/Sara/Downloads/1174-3328-1-SM.doc#_ftnref1">[1]</a>The term ‘asylum seeker’ used in this study include women who have made a claim for asylum under the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, regardless of the legal determination on their claim.</p></div> <div><p><a href="file:///C:/Users/Sara/Downloads/1174-3328-1-SM.doc#_ftnref2">[2]</a>This study was developed from PhD research that was funded by an Economic and Social Research Council studentship.</p></div></div>}, number={2}, journal={ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies}, author={Smith, Kate}, year={2015}, month={Aug.}, pages={461–469} }