ISBN:
9781000824582
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (255 pages)
Series Statement:
Studies in Migration and Diaspora Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
304.8082
Keywords:
Women authors
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This book brings an intersectional perspective to border studies, drawing on case studies from across the world to consider the ways in which notably gender and race dynamics change the ways in which people cross international borders, and how diffuse and virtual borders impact on migrants' experiences.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Series editor introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: Conceptualising and questioning the politics of vulnerability across borders -- 1 Fooled by a mirage: Nigerian migrant women's 'voluntary' return from Libya and the IOM -- 2 Crossing the borders of intimacy: Gender, extimacy and vulnerability assessment in Greece -- 3 Silencing queer asylum seekers within the French reception system: An intersectional analysis of a continuum of institutional violence -- PART II: Resisting violence: Gendered experiences of borders -- 4 At the borderscape: Experiences of Syrian women fleeing into Turkey and Jordan -- 5 Between violence and power to act: Migrant women's resistance at the Morocco-Spain border -- 6 Gendered insecurities: Exploring the continuum of sexual and gender-based violence experiences of refugee women in South Africa -- 7 A migration journey between vulnerability and agency: The case of queer exiles in Istanbul -- PART III: Migrants' gendered agency across social boundaries -- 8 Women border guards coping with migration: The case of Yemeni women in Djibouti -- 9 Navigating borders as good wives/good citizens: Experiences of Indian marriage migrant women in Canada -- 10 From reproductive labour to e-entrepreneurship, from wife and mother to a 'connected entrepreneur': Case study from Chinese marriage migrants in Taiwan -- 11 "How to Get to the Right Side of the Border": Perinatal health education for pregnant foreign women in France -- Conclusion - Interconnections and multiple positioning at the borders -- Index.
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