Mette Edith Lundsfryd Stendevad

Mette Edith Lundsfryd Stendevad is an experienced educator and doctoral researcher in Sociology, University of Leicester. Through developing innovative methodologies of Oral Herstory as Speaking Back Ms Stendevad’s doctoral work uncovers narratives and experiences of displaced Palestinian women born in Syria. Her work illustrates the way structural discriminative settings in different national contexts exceed national borders and reverberate across multiple generations. This shows intersecting challenges of being stateless, female, and refugee, and explains a prolonged, transgenerational, and cross-continental marginalisation of Palestinian women from Syria, while also highlighting their attempts to negotiate their rights to belong in their host country, as well as to return to Palestine. Amongst her academic publications are “What We Lost in Syria, We Had Already Lost in Palestine”: Uncovering Stories Across Generations of Palestinian Women Born in Syria " (2020) and her doctoral dissertation “Palestinian Women of Syria Speaking Back. Portraying Stateless Female Diaspora” (2021).

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