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Internally displaced women in long-term displacement settings actively create meaning, sustain social relationships, and cultivate resilience through everyday practices, despite experiencing enduring ambiguous loss and strong emotional attachments to their homeland. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To examine how internally displaced women experience identity, belonging, health, community dynamics, and future aspirations in a long-term settlement setting.

September 15, 2026Social SciencesOpen Access

Living Between Loss and Adaptation: A Photovoice Study of Internally Displaced Women in a Compact Settlement in Georgia

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SSShorena Sadzaglishvili RARusudan Asatiani

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Qualitative photovoice study reveals everyday resilience and enduring place attachment among internally displaced women, highlighting active adaptation alongside ambiguous loss in prolonged exile.

Key Points

To examine how internally displaced women experience identity, belonging, health, community dynamics, and future aspirations in a long-term settlement setting.
Conducted a participatory visual study using Photovoice across five group sessions in Tserovani, Georgia.
Gathered participant-generated photographs, group discussions, and reflective narratives from women displaced from Akhalgori nearly two decades prior.
Identified overarching qualitative patterns and conceptual frameworks using thematic analysis.
Identified five core themes: enduring attachment to home as an unfinished experience, identity rooted in social and family roles, resilience drawn from nature and daily routines, settlement-based community solidarity, and future planning marked by hope alongside uncertainty.
Demonstrated that lived experiences in protracted displacement reflect an intersection of ambiguous loss, place attachment, and active everyday coping rather than passive vulnerability.

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Sadzaglishvili et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aa9134b9013453be30a1202 https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci15090621

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September 15, 2026Social SciencesOpen Access

Living Between Loss and Adaptation: A Photovoice Study of Internally Displaced Women in a Compact Settlement in Georgia

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Authors

SSShorena Sadzaglishvili RARusudan Asatiani

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Overview

Qualitative photovoice study reveals everyday resilience and enduring place attachment among internally displaced women, highlighting active adaptation alongside ambiguous loss in prolonged exile.

Key Points

To examine how internally displaced women experience identity, belonging, health, community dynamics, and future aspirations in a long-term settlement setting.
Conducted a participatory visual study using Photovoice across five group sessions in Tserovani, Georgia.
Gathered participant-generated photographs, group discussions, and reflective narratives from women displaced from Akhalgori nearly two decades prior.
Identified overarching qualitative patterns and conceptual frameworks using thematic analysis.
Identified five core themes: enduring attachment to home as an unfinished experience, identity rooted in social and family roles, resilience drawn from nature and daily routines, settlement-based community solidarity, and future planning marked by hope alongside uncertainty.
Demonstrated that lived experiences in protracted displacement reflect an intersection of ambiguous loss, place attachment, and active everyday coping rather than passive vulnerability.

Cite This Study

Sadzaglishvili et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aa9134b9013453be30a1202 https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci15090621

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