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SUMMARY:Early Marriage in Zaatari: Displacement and Agency Among Syrian Ref
 ugees
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sarah Tobin\, associate director\, Middle East Studi
 es\n\nRegistration will open February 4.\n\nPlease be aware\, that upon s
 tart of the event\, unclaimed lunches and seats will be given to those on 
 standby\, even if you have registered.\n\nPriority will be given to the Br
 own community.\n\nThis event is part of the Middle East Studies Luncheon 
 Seminar Series.\n\nAbstract:\n\nWestern reports of sex- and gender-based v
 iolence of Syrian refugees in Jordan\, namely the world’s second largest
  refugee camp\, Zaatari\, are rife with alarmist reports of rape\, assault
 \, and early marriage of young teenage girls. My own research found that e
 arly marriage is reportedly occurring in Zaatari for a number of prominent
  and expected reasons\, including economic vulnerability of large\, female
 -headed households\; demographic limitations due to the absence of men age
  18-40 in the camp\; and self-proclaimed adherence to “Syrian traditions
 \,” among others. More immediately\, however\, I argue that an unspoken 
 underpinning of the marriage of young girls is that\, rather than enhanced
  controls and regulation on women and their bodies\, parents and adults ar
 e granting young girls enhanced and amplified agency. As previous literatu
 re has articulated\, solutions to bodily\, everyday suffering are often in
 dexed in terms of expectations of agency. The results of this in the refug
 ee experience are that many rapes are recast as consensual “zina” or 
 “adultery\,” and young girls can and do consent to marriages with eith
 er very young men or very old men. These practices ultimately disenfranchi
 se them from education and employment opportunities long into the future. 
 While enhanced agency might\, at first glance\, appear to be deregulation 
 of women’s bodies\, the larger structural impacts are actually an intens
 ification of regulation of women’s bodies and control of women’s movem
 ents and possibilities.\n\nBio:\n\nDr. Sarah Tobin is an anthropologist wi
 th expertise in Islam\, economic anthropology\, and gender in the Middle E
 ast. Her work explores transformations in religious and economic life\, id
 entity construction\, and personal piety at the intersections with gender\
 , Islamic authority and normative Islam\, public ethics\, and Islamic auth
 enticity. Ethnographically\, her work focuses on Islamic piety in the econ
 omy\, especially Islamic Banking and Finance\, Ramadan\, and in contested 
 fields of consumption such as the hijab\, and the Arab Spring. Her most re
 cent research focuses on security and resilience in Syrian Refugee Camps i
 n Jordan. She published “Security and Resilience Among Syrian Refugees i
 n Jordan”\n\n
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