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Issues concerning refugees and asylum-seekers are very much on the minds of law and policy-makers worldwide. This article seeks to understand the way the concept of vulnerability is used in forced migration in the European Union. It does so by examining the experience of women asylum-seekers in Greece, to assess their vulnerability, especially regarding the social–legal–economical conditions that favour the commission of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against them. The article, therefore, examines the EU legal framework to understand the role vulnerability plays. Drawing from empirical fieldwork conducted by the authors in Greece, and an examination of the literature, the study examines the importance of the concept of vulnerability in the context of forced migration. The article examines how the notion of vulnerability is useful to indicate how women asylum-seekers are at greater risk of SGBV. It examines that vulnerability through the issues connected to organizational and structural issues in refugee camps and other types of accommodation used by these people, to indicate how these matters exacerbate their risk of various types of SGBV. The study argues that the notion of the vulnerability paradox ought to be used within an intersectional framework to ensure that such persons receive proper protection.

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Keywords: vulnerability assessmentvulnerability paradox ; intersectionality ; theory of vulnerability ; asylum-seekers ; sexual and gender-based violence

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