Trust and mistrust in the lives of forcibly displaced women and children

This article consider the experiences of displaced women and children during displacement as well as the issue of trust (or mistrust) throughout their journey towards future emplacement. Interpersonal and broader gender-based violence in politicised contexts is also explored. Various stages of displacement are viewed and, through the use of examples from within refugee camps, host countries and countries of asylum, insights into the lived experiences of the displaced women and children are provided. This article therefore draws on research projects and practitioner experience, including research carried out within refugee camps, in the UK on the dispersal of asylum-seekers, qualitative research into agency responses to the trafficking of children and young people, as well as a scoping study involving qualitative research into non-statutory understandings of trafficking.