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Background
Dana Farraj is an international humanitarian law student in Aix-Marseille University in France, graduating by January 2019. She holds a bachelor degree of Birzeit University, major of law and minor of political science.
Currently enrolled in an internship in Colombia for seven months, in an organization that works for the rights of political prisoners, peasant’s violation rights as displaced people in addition to the permanent threat of territories confiscation and finally for victims of extrajudicial condemns.
As a Palestinian refugee in Al-Jalazoun camp (originally from Al-Lod) and a member of the Union of Palestinian Women Committees, she has a rich experience of working with other Palestinian refugees, whereas in France she was a member in the legal clinic for international human rights law of the institute of humanitarian studies in Aix en Provence, also a volunteer in Cimade association that works for the rights of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
Since she is thinking to continue my study in a PHD in international law she envisions her future as a researcher, and a defender of human rights.
Recently, she was enrolled in the “Violence, Forced Migration and Exile: Trauma in the Arab World and in Germany” DAAD project. Her research interests revolve around Syrian refugee women.
Research project
The study aims to understand the case of Syrian refugee women as an illustrative case of the problems related to the vulnerabilities that refugees are exposed in the host countries. It is a comparative study of two different societies, German and Lebanon societies.
The women are chosen as a main subject of the study for the reason of their exceptional protection needs. The study will be accomplished by analyzing different approaches: firstly, the legal resources, via studying discrimination against women in regard of national and international laws. Secondly, social and historical aspects as differences between Syrian and German societies and the roles those play Syrian women in both of these societies.
Finally, the research will focus about women education and cultural characteristics, which represent a challenge regarding integration between the public and private spheres. Thus, we are questioning how women see themselves outside of their community, in a totally different space. Are they able to adapt or they have a gap between the private space (the home as a small community) and the public space represented of the whole new community.