ABSTRACT
This chapter considers some narratives of poverty through the case studies of the lived experiences of the families told by women forced migrants. Refugee women bear a disproportionate share of emotional and mental distress during all stages of displacement, which include: pre-uprooting in the homeland; uprooting when refugees depart their country of origin; and transition in either refugee camps or countries of first asylum. The stages of displacement also includes resettlement in first countries of asylum, second countries or repatriation, and integration to the new society for resettled refugees or repatriation to the country of origin. The chapter explores the transnational feminist analysis of the case studies: holistic understanding of poverty; women's vulnerability to violence that exacerbates poverty; marginalised power relations as a form of poverty; women's unpaid care work as poverty; and transnational nature of poverty. A. M. Jaggar has argued that conceptual analyses of poverty overlook the voices and lived experiences of people living in poverty.
