ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates how women's and men's lives change in diaspora, as do their gender performances, making an argument that gender is performed and the impact of culture does not necessarily linger unaffected after refugeehood. The issues of integration and isolation can be very interlinked: the extent of refugees' integration can be closely linked to whether they feel isolated. Using an intersectional approach to gender performativity, the chapter seeks to deconstruct the ways in which the experiences of Syrian men and women refugees differ and shift according to the context they are in. Syrian refugees talked about how they are exposed to different "values" in the UK and said they wanted to keep some of their cultural values to "preserve" their culture and traditions. Despite the fact that Syrian women still felt that they were being monitored and controlled, the majority also thought that legal protection in the UK gave them power.
