Journal articles
Pertek, S. (2024) Adaptive Religious Coping with Experiences of Sexual and Gender-based Violence and Displacement. Journal of Refugee Studies.
Pertek, S., Kuznetsova, I. and Tsarevska, J. (2023) Ukrainian internally displaced women at risk of sexual and gender-based violence. Forced Migration Review. University of Oxford.
Pertek, S., Block, K., Goodson, L., Hassan, P., Hourani, J. and Phillimore, J. (2023) Gender-based violence, religion and forced displacement: protective and risk factors. Frontiers in Human Dynamics (5):1058822.
Pertek, S.I. (2022) God Helped Us: Resilience, Religion and Experiences of Gender-Based Violence and Trafficking among African Forced Migrant Women. Social Sciences. 11 (5): 201. doi:10.3390/socsci11050201
Phillimore, J., Pertek, S., Akyuz, S., Hourani, J., Ozcurumez, S., Darkal, H. and Bradby, H. (2021) “We are Forgotten”: Forced Migration, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, and Coronavirus Disease-2019. Violence Against Women . doi:10.1177/10778012211030943.
Rutledge, K., Pertek, S.I., Abo-Hilal, M. and Fitzgibbon, A. (2021) Faith and MHPSS among displaced Muslim women. Forced Migration Review (66): 24-26.
Phillimore, J., Pertek S. and Alidu, L. (2019) Sexual and gender-based violence and social justice: parity of participation for forced migrant survivors in the UK? July 2019 Siirtolaisuus / Siirtolaisuusinstituutti.
Book
Le Roux, E. and Pertek, S. (forthcoming) Religion matters – on the significance of religion in violence against women and girls. Routledge.
Book chapters
Phillimore, J., Pertek, S. and Alidu, L. (2021) “Gender and Refugee Resettlement: The Role of Proximal and Distal Stressors in the Experiences of Survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence”, in Mora, C. and Piper, N. (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Migration. Cham: Springer International Publishing. pp. 405–424. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-63347-9_25.
Pertek, S.I. (2020) “Deconstructing Islamic perspectives on sexual and gender-based violence (GBV), toward a faith inclusive approach” in Khan, I. & Cheema, A. (eds.) Islam and International Development: Insights for working with Muslim Communities. Practical Action Publishing.
Pertek, S.I., Almugahed, N. and Fida, N. (2020) Integrating gender-based violence and child protection, an exploration of Islamic Relief’s approaches in Kraft, K. and Wilkinson, O.J. (eds.) International Development and Local Faith Actors: Ideological and Cultural Encounters. Routledge.
Working papers, reports and briefings
Pertek, S., Kuznetsova, I. and Kot, M. (2022) “Not a single safe place”: The Ukrainian refugees at risk: violence, trafficking and exploitation. Findings from Poland and Ukraine. Research Report. University of Birmingham.
Pertek, S. (2023) Protection from violence against women in forced displacement. Integrating religion into intersectional and socioecological approaches. Policy Brief. University of Birmingham.
Pertek, S. (2022) The SEREDA project. Highlighting the continuum of SGBV in forced migration. Policy Brief. University of Birmingham.
Pertek, S. and Phillimore, J. with Akyüz, S., Block, K., Bradby, B., Özçürümez, S., Perez Aronsson, A. and Vaughan, C. (2022) “Nobody helped me”: Forced migration and sexual and gender-based violence: findings from the SEREDA project. Research Report. University of Birmingham.
Pertek, S., Phillimore, J. and Goodson, L. with Stevens, A., Thomas, S., Hassan, P., Darkal, H., Taal, S. and Altaweel, R. (2021) Forced migration and sexual and gender-based violence: findings from the SEREDA project in the UK. Research Report. University of Birmingham.
Pertek, S., Phillimore, J. and McKnight, P. (2020) Forced Migration, SGBV and COVID-19: The furthest behind – forced migrant survivors of violence. Policy Brief. University of Birmingham.
Pertek, S., Phillimore, J., McKnight, P., Akyüz, S., Bradby, H., Coles, A., Darkal, H., Elfeky, R., Goodson, L., Hourani, J., McSherry, B., Ozcurumez, S., Taal, S., Thomas, S., Vaughan, C. and Zobli, S. (2020) Forced Migration, SGBV and COVID-19: Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on the forced migrant survivors of SGBV. Research Report. University of Birmingham.
Phillimore, J., Pertek, S. and Alidou, L. (2018) Sexual and gender-based violence and refugees. The impacts of and on integration domains, IRiS Working Paper Series, No. 31/2019, Birmingham: Institute for Research into Superdiversity.
Pertek, S. (2016) Gender Study: Conditional Cash Project for Vulnerable Syrian and Jordanian Children in Irbid, Jordan. Islamic Relief Worldwide. Birmingham.
Policy documents
Home Office (2019) (2019) Indicators of Integration framework 2019: Theory of Change Guide notes Part A. London: Home Office UK.
Home Office (2019) Indicators of Integration framework 2019: Theory of Change Guide notes Part B. London: Home Office UK.
Home Office (2019) Theory of change for achieving integration. London: Home Office UK.
Pertek, S. and Abdulaziz, Sh. (2018) Don’t Force Me, A policy brief on early and forced marriage. Islamic Relief Worldwide, Birmingham.
Pertek, I.S. (2015) Gender Justice Policy. Islamic Relief Worldwide, Birmingham.
Other
Islamic Development Bank (2020) Islamic Microfinance for Women: A Resource Guide for Practitioners.
Conferences
“The Continuum of Sexual and Gender-based Violence from Displacement to Refuge: Findings from the SEREDA Project”, September 2022, Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) Forum, Cancun, Mexico.
“Religion, forced migration and gender-based violence: an intersectional and ecological analysis”, July 2022, Migration, Ethnicity and Diversity Research Group Annual Conference. Cardiff University“Vulnerability or resilience? Exploring intersecting identities in forced migrant experiences of gender-based violence from an intersectional and socioecological perspective”, May 2022, The Migration, Identity and Translation Network Warwick University and Monash University
“Ukrainian refugees at risk: Gender-based violence in forced displacement”, May 2022, Expert Panel “How do we protect Ukrainian refugees from human trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation?” Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Warsaw.
““We are Forgotten”: Forced Migration, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, and Coronavirus Disease-2019”, July 2021, IASFM 18 Conference. Disrupting Theory, Unsettling Practice: Towards Transformative Forced Migration Scholarship and Policy. University of Ghana.
“Adapted religious coping mechanisms among forced migrant survivors of sexual and gender-based violence”, May 2022, Refugee Mental Health and Place Conference. Kings College London
“In the Qur’an, it is not allowed to beat women”: Understanding Levantine refugee women’s experiences of spousal violence through epistemic diversity”, September 2021, 4th European Domestic Violence Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia and June 2021, Interpersonal Violence Interventions - Social and Cultural PerspectivesConference in Jyväskylä, Finland.
““We are Forgotten”: Forced Migration, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, and Coronavirus Disease-2019”, July 2021, IASFM 18 Conference. Disrupting Theory, Unsettling Practice: Towards Transformative Forced Migration Scholarship and Policy. University of Ghana.
“Rethinking resilience: Religious coping mechanisms among forced migrant women survivors of violence”, March 2021, 'Bold New Voices in Migration Research: Understanding Displacement, Hope, Resistance'. Immigration Initiative at Harvard University.
“SGBV experiences in forced migration, religion and intersectional vulnerabilities” - War violence and domestic violence: Understanding the relationship and exploring linkages with forced migration and religious beliefs, February 2021, Project dldl and SOAS.
“Faith in the forced migrant experiences of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and modern slavery”, December 2020, U21 Early Career Researcher Conference on Modern Slavery, Trafficking and Forced Labour.
“Reimagining Social Justice: Reaching the Furthest Behind and Preventing Gendered Harm”, October 2020, Regional Corporate Social Responsibility Network, The Philanthropy and Social Responsibility Summit. Manama.
“Religion in the forced migrant experiences of SGBV”, October 2020, Poster Presentation. USAID Evidence Summit for Strategic Religious Engagement. Washington DC.
“Faith and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS): Integration and Implications for Humanitarian Action”, June 2020, Rethinking Faith in Development and Humanitarian Contexts Conference, Queens Margaret University, Institute for Global Health and Development, Psychosocial Wellbeing, Integration and Protection Cluster.
“Engaging with faith perspectives on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), toward a faith inclusive approach in programming”, June 2020, Faith Leadership for Global Challenges Panel. University of Birmingham, Development Studies Association conference.
“Religion, resilience and trauma in the experiences of sexual exploitation across the refugee and migrant journeys”, January 2020, University of Sheffield, University of Leeds and ESRC, Faith and anti-trafficking Conference.
“Faith in refugee & migrant women’s experiences of sexual exploitation”, December 2019, Brussels, Five Years After the Joint Declaration of Religious Leaders against “Modern Slavery”, European Parliament, EPP group, S&D group, COMECE and Don Bosco International.
“Do you have faith? Religion in experiences of intersectional violence against refugee and migrant women”, October 2019, Sexual Violence Research Initiative Forum, Cape Town, South Africa.
“Religionin SGBV experiences of refugees; gaps and challenges”, June 2019, PGR Annual Conference, University of Birmingham
“Exploring the power of faith in preventing domestic abuse: reflections from the Somali regional state of Ethiopia” International Symposium on Human Rights, Human Rights and Equality Institution of Turkey (TIHEK)
“Gendered Islamophobia in Europe”. Hearing on Islamophobia of The No Hate Parliamentary Alliance, at the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination, April 2019, Council of Europe.
“Sexual and gender-based violence and refugees: the impacts of and on integration”, July 2018, Annual Conference of International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM), Thessaloniki, Greece.
“Launch of the Global Consultation on the Islamic Gender Justice Declaration” Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), New York in partnership with UN Women and UNFPA.
“Do you have faith in the SDGs? Faith Sensitive Gender Justice Mainstreaming, Towards Inclusion of Faith Actors in CSW and SDGs” Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), New York in partnership with Lutheran World Federation, Finn Church Aid, WCC and UNFPA.
“Promoting Gender Justice in the Muslim World, toward faith-sensitive gender mainstreaming”, March 2018, 62nd Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), NY in partnership with UN Women and OIC.
“Addressing Violence and Harmful Practices against Rural Women and Girls,including women and girls on the move”, March 2018, CSW Session for Arab States, Tunis.
“Consultation on the Islamic Gender Justice Declaration” a multi-stakeholder meeting in Birmingham with INGOs, NGOs, FBOs and UN agencies.
Wilton Park Conference, International Partnership for Religion and Sustainable Development (PARD), October, 2017. Co-chaired SGBV work-stream with intergovernmental and international organisations.
“Harnessing Faith & Culture: Advancing Women’s Rights & Responding toViolence”, June 2015, 49th Session of Human Rights Council of UN, Geneva.
“Protecting the Rights of the Family in Humanitarian Contexts”, April 2015, 2nd Session of Human Rights Council of OIC, Jeddah.
Select blog posts
Pertek, S. (2023) Gender and forced displacement: Time to integrate religion into humanitarian responses to violence against women | Religion and Global Society (lse.ac.uk)
Pertek, S. (2023) Gender, Religion, and Forced Displacement in Muslim Settings: Missed Opportunities? (georgetown.edu)
Pertek, S., Al-Dawood, A. and Saleem, A. (2023) Sexual and gender-based violence in migration contexts: does faith sensitivity matter? (icrc.org)
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