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Land displacement is not a gender-neutral process. During our research at @KarachiUrbanLab on #Displacement, women expressed higher levels of distress due to consistently higher loss of social safety, community disruption, loss of homes, and loss of livelihoods.
In conversations around displacement, gender is often overlooked.
Since women’s lives are largely centered around the domestic realm and the family, they may have fewer outlets than men to cope with vulnerability and insecurity.
Since women’s lives are largely centered around the domestic realm and the family, they may have fewer outlets than men to cope with vulnerability and insecurity.
Planning policies and rehabilitation plans must take into consideration that women’s mobility, employment and sense of safety comes to rely on social networks which are built over long periods of time.
Once disrupted or scattered, these networks are difficult to rebuild.
Once disrupted or scattered, these networks are difficult to rebuild.
In our forthcoming film, we hope to shed light on some of these gendered implications of displacement in urban Pakistan.
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