Gender Mainstreaming Forced Migration Research

Doing research on sensitive topics1 can be a difficult undertaking even in the most conducive of circumstances. Attempting to integrate a gendered perspective while studying migration during the Summer 2006 War in Lebanon, has certainly proven to be daunting.2 In the following study, the seemingly insurmountable difficulties involved in carrying out applied social science in wartime and during the immediate postwar period will be briefly portrayed. Special emphasis will be placed on the difficulties that the Lebanese Emigration Research Center faced in obtaining valid data on the experiences of women fleeing a war situation