Women mi­grants, refugees and access to justice in India: A crit­ic­al ana­lys­is of legal pro­tec­tion, gendered vul­ner­ab­il­it­ies and emer­ging chal­lenges

De­vel­op­ment sum­mary

Dr. Sur­an­ya S. Kumar ad­dresses women mi­grants’ and refugees’ access to justice in India, where the ab­sence of a com­pre­hens­ive refugee pro­tec­tion frame­work cre­ates bar­ri­ers for dis­placed women. Her ana­lys­is con­siders in­ter­na­tion­al legal in­stru­ments, con­sti­tu­tion­al guar­an­tees, ju­di­cial in­ter­ven­tions, legal aid and civil so­ci­ety or­gan­isa­tions through a human rights and gender justice per­spect­ive.