The refugee crisis that began in 2015 has seen thousands of refugees attempting to reach Europe, principally from Syria. The dangers and difficulties of this journey have been highlighted in the media, as have the political disagreements within Europe over the way to deal with the problem. However, despite the increasing number of women making this journey, there has been little or no analysis of women's experiences or of the particular difficulties and dangers they may face. This title examines women's experience at all stages of forced migration, from the conflict in Syria, to refugee camps in Lebanon or Turkey, on the journey to the European Union and on arrival in an EU member state.

Introduction : gender, migration and exile / Jane Freedman, Zeynep Kivilcim, Nurcan Ozgur Baklacioglu -- Destabilising gender dynamics : Syria post 2011 / Nour Abu-Assab -- Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) Syrian refugees in Turkey / Zeynep Kivilcim -- The violence of tolerated temporality : Syrian women refugees on the outskirts of Istanbul / Nurcan Ozgur Baklacioglu -- "Trust no one, beware of everyone" : vulnerabilities of LGBTI refugees in Lebanon / Henri Myrttinen, Lana Khattab, Charbel Maydaa -- Gender, social class, and exile : the case of Syrian women in Cairo / Maysa Ayoub -- Death at sea : migration and the gendered dimensions of border insecurity / Sharon Pickering and Rebecca Powell -- Women's experience of forced migration : gender-based forms of insecurity and the uses of "vulnerability" / Jane Freedman -- Gender performativity in diaspora : Syrian refugee women in the UK / Nof Nasser-Eddin -- Agent, victim, soldier, son : intersecting masculinities in the European refugee crisis / Jennifer Allsopp.