ISBN:
9781441902702
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (138 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Women, Borders, and Violence : Gender, Unauthorised Migration and the Feminisation of Survival
DDC:
305.489691
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Women at the Border analyzes border policing practices currently informed by paradigms of securitization against unauthorized mobility and explores the potential for a paradigm shift to a more ethical regulation of borders. By focusing on the ways women have sought to cross borders in 'extra'-legal fashion, the book shows how border enforcement differentially impacts on some populations and makes the case that unauthorized migration requires management rather than repulsion and criminalization. When facing the emerging and future challenges of unauthorized mobility, border policing must be rec
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; Chapter 1; Women and Extra Legal Border Crossing; Chapter 2; The Journey to the Border: Continuums of Crossing; Chapter 3; Border Policing in the Borderlands: Policing Politically Active Women on the Thai-Burma Border; Chapter 4; A Gate at the Border?; Asylum and Gender-Based Persecution; Chapter 5; Policing the Border Within: Sex Trafficking and the Regulation of Sex Work; Chapter 6; Women, Borders, and Violence; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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