Publications

Project Publications
- Tastsoglou, E., Sahraoui N., Freedman, J. (2022). Gender-Based Violence in Migration: Interdisciplinary, Feminist and Intersectional Approaches. Palgrave Macmillan. 10.1007/978-3-031-07929-0
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- Yalcinoz-Ucan, B., Tastsoglou, E., Dawson, M. (2025). Tracing Individual Experiences to Systemic Challenges: The (Re)Production of GBV in Migrant Women’s Experiences in Canada, Frontiers in Sociology, Special Research Topic on Gender and the Continuum of Violence in Migration, edited by Tastsoglou E., Dawson, M., Freedman, J., Holtmann, C. Vol. 10 (Open Access).
- Tastsoglou, E., Freedman, J. (2025). “Gender-Based and Intersectional Violence in Migration and Refugee Contexts: A Contextual Global Approach”, International Sociology, Special Issue on Gender and Contextual Global Approaches, co-edited by Abraham M. and Vasil, S. https://doi.org/10.1177/02685809251347939
- Tastsoglou, E. (2025). Gender-Based Violence in a Migration Context: Health Impacts and Barriers to Healthcare Access and Help Seeking for Migrant and Refugee Women in Canada. Societies, 15(3), 68. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc15030068
- Sisic, M., Tastsoglou, E., Wilkinson, L., Dawson, M., Holtmann, C., Falconer, C. (2024). The Continuum of Gender-Based Violence Experienced by Migrant and Refugee Women in Canada: Perspectives from Key Informants. In Special Topic on “Gender and the Continuum of Violence in Migration,” guest-edited by Tastsoglou, E., Dawson, M., Freedman, J., Holtmann. C. In the journal Sociology, Frontiers
- Holtmann, C., Tastsoglou, E., Dawson, M. Wilkinson, L. (2023). Surviving Gender-Based Violence: A Social Ecological Approach to Migrant and Refugee Women’s Settlement. Canadian Ethnic Studies, Special Issue on Gender and Violence in a Migration and Refugee Context: Agency, Resilience and Resistance, edited by Tastsoglou, E. 55(3), 57-77
- Tastsoglou, E., Wilkinson, L. (2023). Gender-Based Violence and Citizenship in a Migration Context. In Mary Romero (Ed.) Research Handbook on Intersectionality. Northampton, Mass: Edward Elgar Books. 292-312.
- Reilly, N., Bjørnholt, M., Tastsoglou, E. (2022). Vulnerability, Precarity and Intersectionality: A Critical Review of Three Key Concepts for Understanding Gender-Based Violence in Migration Contexts, in Gender-Based Violence in Migration: Interdisciplinary, Feminist and Intersectional Approaches, edited by Freedman, J., Sahraoui, N., Tastsoglou, E., Palgrave-Macmillan, 29-56.
- Freedman, J., Sahraoui, N., Tastsoglou, E. (2022). Thinking about Gender and Violence in Migration. An Introduction, in Gender-Based Violence in Migration. Interdisciplinary, Feminist and Intersectional Approaches, edited by Freedman, J., Sahraoui, N., Tastsoglou, E., Palgrave-Macmillan, 3-28.
- Tastsoglou, E., Sahraoui N., Freedman, J. (2022). “Conclusion” in Gender-Based Violence in Migration: Interdisciplinary, Feminist and Intersectional Approaches, edited by Freedman, J., Sahraoui, N., and Tastsoglou, E. Palgrave-Macmillan, 235-244.
- Tastsoglou, E., Falconer, C., Sisic, M., Dawson, M., Wilkinson, L. (2022). The Gender of Canadian Legal and Policy Gender-Based Violence and Immigration Frameworks, in Gender-Based Violence in Migration. Interdisciplinary, Feminist and Intersectional Approaches, edited by Freedman, J., Sahraoui N., and Tastsoglou, E. Palgrave-Macmillan, 85-111.
Research Briefs
1. GBV in a Migration Context- Health Impacts and Barriers to Healthcare Access
2. The Gender of Canadian Legal and Policy GBV and Immigration Frameworks
3. Tracing Individual Experiences to Systemic Challenges
4. Understanding Gender-Based Violence and Citizenship in a Migration Context
5. The Continuum of GBV experienced by Migrant and Refugee Women in Canada
6. Surviving GBV: A Social Ecological Approach to MRW's Resilience
7. Gender-Based and Intersectional Violence in Migration and Refugee Contexts
Member Publications
- Tastsoglou, E., Dawson, M., Freedman, J., Holtmann, C. Co-Eds. (2024-2025), Gender and the Continuum of Violence in Migration, Special Research Topic in Frontiers in Sociology, 2024-2025 (Open Access).
- Karagiannopoulou, C., Tastsoglou, E., Petrinioti, S. (2024). Gender and Asylum Seeking in a European Borderland: Intersectional Discriminations and ‘Lessened’ Citizenship, Refuge. 40(1), 1-17.
- Johnson, A., Dawson, M. (2024). Filicide and criminal justice outcomes: Are mothers and fathers treated differently? Child Abuse & Neglect 157.
- Aspinall, M., Gill, C., Dawson, M., & Cousineau, M. (2024). Coercive control and risk in intimate partner violence: Are Canadian police prepared to assess? Policing & Society 34(7). 613-626.
- Williams, R. R., Holtmann, C., & Sachs, W. L. (2024). Sacred Snaps: Photovoice for Interfaith Engagement. Taylor & Francis.
- Karagiannopoulou, C., Tastsoglou E., Petrinioti. S. (2024). Gender and Asylum Seeking in a European Borderland: Intersectional Discriminations and ‘Lessened’ Citizenship, Refuge. 40(1), 1-17.
- Sevgur, S., Tastsoglou E. and Kwon, E. (2024). A Matter of National Dignity: Protection of Slaves and Southern Refugees in Canada, 1844-1869, Canadian Ethnic Studies, 56(1), 123-134.
- Dawson, M., Angus, H., Zecha, A. (2024). Identifying femicide using the United Nations Statistical Framework: Exploring the feasibility of sex/gender-related motives and indicators to inform prevention. International Sociology 39(3). 309-331.
- Aspinall, M., Gill, C., Dawson, M., & Cousineau, M. (2024). Coercive control and risk in intimate partner violence: Are Canadian police prepared to assess? Policing & Society 34(7). 613-626.
- Pallabi, B., Songose, L., Wilkinson, L. (2024). A New School and New Life: Understanding the Experiences of Yazidi Children and Youth. Ethics, Rights, Culture and the Humanization of Refugees Anna Kirova, Michael Frishkopf and Yasmeen Abu-Laban, eds. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press.
- Ogoe, S., Wilkinson, L. (2024). The right to work: rhetoric and reality for refugees in Canada. in Forced Migration in/to Canada: From Colonization to refugee resettlement. Christina Clark-Kazak, ed. Montreal and Kingston: University of Montreal/Queen’s University Press. 347-358.
- Tastsoglou, E. (2023). “Introduction” in Gender and Violence in a Migration and Refugee Context: Agency Resilience and Resistance” Canadian Ethnic Studies, Special Issue on Gender and Violence in a Migration and Refugee Context: Agency, Resilience and Resistance, edited by Tastsoglou, E. 55(3), 1-12.
- Tastsoglou, E., Freedman, J. (2023). Editorial: Gender, Violence and Forced Migration in Frontiers: Refugees and Conflict, Special Topic on Gender, Violence and Forced Migration.
- Tastsoglou, E., Guest Editor (2023). Gender and Violence in a Migration and Refugee Context: Agency, Resilience and Resistance. Special issue of Canadian Ethnic Studies, 55(3), 1-199.
- Tastsoglou, E., Sevgur, S. (2023). Middle Eastern Transnational Families and Ethnic Networks: A Story of Immigrant Mobilities to and From Atlantic Canada, Journal of International Migration and Integration. 24. 1103-1119.
- Petrinioti, S., Tastsoglou, E., Karagiannopoulou, C. (2023). Practicing Conformity, Resistance and Resilience to Gender-Based Violence: Women Asylum Seekers in the Eastern Mediterranean. Canadian Ethnic Studies, Special Issue on Gender and Violence in a Migration and Refugee Context: Agency, Resilience and Resistance, edited by Tastsoglou, E. 55(3), 123-143.
- Tastsoglou, E., Freedman, J. (2021-2023). Co-Eds. Gender, Violence and Forced Migration, Special Research Topic of Frontiers in Human Dynamics – Refugees and Conflict (Open Access).
- The Routledge International Handbook on Femicide and Feminicide. Edited By Myrna Dawson and Saide Mobayed Vega.
- Ending Gender-Based Violence: Harnessing Research for Social Change. Edited by Catherine Holtmann, Sue O'Donnell, and Linda Neilson.
- Canada’s shadow pandemic: Femicide by Myrna Dawson - The Conversation
- Tastsoglou, E. & Nourpanah, S. (2022). Labor Transformations in the Academy under Covid-19 through the Lens of Intersectional Feminism. A Canadian Duoethnography. In M. Heath, A. Darkwah, J. Beoku-Betts and B. Purkayastha (Eds.), Global Feminist Autoethnographies During Covid-19. Routledge.
- Tastsoglou, E., Petrinioti, X., & Karagiannopoulou, C. (2021). The Gender-Based Violence and Precarity Nexus: Asylum-Seeking Women in the Eastern Mediterranean. Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 3.
- Tastsoglou, E. & Freedman, J. (2021) Co-Editors of Special Research Topic on “Gender, Violence and Forced Migration” of Frontiers in Human Dynamics – Refugees and Conflict. (Open Access).
- Bhattacharyya, P., Songose, L., & Wilkinson, L. (2021). How Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Affects the Settlement Experiences Among Yazidi Refugee Women in Canada. Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 3.
Concept Papers
Book Reviews
Reports
Project Brochures
Here is our Brochure about Canada's policy responses to GBV.

Here is our Brochure titled Gender-Based Violence and Migration: An Overview from Canada. If you would like hard copies, please let us know how many with your mailing address, and we can send them to you.

Policy Brief
Short Policy Brief by GBV-MIG Research Project - 25th International Metropolis Conference in Berlin