Women, borders, and violence : current issues in asylum, forced migration and trafficking / Sharon Pickering.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pickering, Sharon, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women noncitizens--Social conditions.

Women noncitizens.

Social conditions.

Border security--Case studies.

Border security.

Freedom of movement--Sex differences.

Freedom of movement.

Sex differences.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xi, 133 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer, [2011]

Summary:

Analyzes women's extra legal border crossing in relation to the increasing securitization of borders against unauthorized mobility, and shows how border enforcement differentially impacts some populations and produces various forms of gender based violence. Examines gender and extra legal border crossing across Europe, North America, Africa, South East Asia and Australia -- Back cover.

Contents:

1. Women and extra legal border crossing

2. The journey to the border : continuums of crossing

3. Border policing in the borderlands : policing politically active women on the Thai-Burma border

4. A gate at the border?

5. Policing the border within : sex trafficking and the regulation of sex work

6. Women, borders, and violence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-130) and index.

ISBN:

9781441902702

1441902708

OCLC:

703319010