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Silent Sufferings of Sudanese Refugee Women in Egypt: An Advocacy for Global Protection
Priscilla Temitayo Adebayo
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2134/2025.06.004
Kennesaw State University, Georgia, USA
This study explores the lived experiences of Sudanese women residing in Clarkston Georgia, USA who fled war and conflict in Sudan and sought refuge in Egypt. This qualitative research illustrates the main challenges that these women experienced in Egypt, such as racial discrimination, gender-based violence, economic hardship, police brutality, and legal protection gaps. Their being female, belonging to the black African race, and displacement status added to their vulnerabilities, which further isolated them from the Egyptian society. Semi-structured in-depth interviews and discussions in focus groups with 20 Sudanese refugee women who were resettled in Clarkston, Georgia, exposed the psychological residues that their struggles took in Egypt and elicited deep psychological trauma. However, now resettled in the U.S., many women felt security, and came upon access to resources, avenues for education and work-undoing their lives with dignity. The study, therefore, calls for legal protection at the international level, gender-sensitive refugee policies, and deeper global cooperation that can guarantee protection and rights for refugee women. Guided by theories of feminism and human rights, this research provides important lessons in systemic reforms of mechanisms for the protection of refugees to meet special needs of refugee women worldwide.
Sudanese refugee women, human rights, Egypt, United States, racial discrimination, gender-based violence
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