ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to expose the main dimensions of structural violence and the challenges that Syrian refugee women face, as well as exploring the survival strategies they develop to cope with the administrative and economic reproduction of poverty and vulnerability. Temporality and tolerance narrow the living spaces of women refugees through the social construction and governance of structural violence, that is, structures of inequality, poverty, systemic discrimination and the power relations of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). A strategy normalized by masculine cultural arguments and constituted by the structural violence of temporary protection, normalizes enslavement of and violence against Syrian children and women. Syrian women find themselves overwhelmed by their new status and gender roles – in the family, in the Syrian refugee community and in the receiving society. The fear of lost shelter, encampment, sullied honour, deportation and sexual and social exploitation expose the main dimensions of structural violence that Syrian women experience in Istanbul.
