ABSTRACT
This chapter presents knowledge produced through the remote/hybrid audio-visual methodology developed and described in previous chapters. In this section, displaced women who acted as co-researchers take primary authorship, sharing testimonies of their lived experiences of displacement. Rather than theorising displacement on an academic level, this chapter examines how women conceptualise displacement based on their own experiences. Drawing on their collective experiences, they identify multiple forms of displacement that are not mutually exclusive and can occur simultaneously. Displacement is often not a singular event but may be experienced repeatedly – once displaced, individuals become more vulnerable to further displacement in various ways. This chapter also highlights the economic, social, and political forms of violence that often lead to displacement, alongside other intersecting causes. These forms of violence frequently interplay, creating compounded vulnerabilities. The women do not draw rigid boundaries between political violence occurring at national, regional, or neighbourhood scales; the state's actions – or perceived inaction – in protecting victims of conflict and addressing poverty; and interpersonal violence. Instead, they demonstrate how these various forms of violence intersect and exacerbate one another, shaping their displacement experiences in complex ways.
