Women, borders, and violence
Subtitle: current issues in asylum, forced migration and trafficking
By: Sharon Pickering
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9781441902702
Subjects: Illegaler Grenzverkehr; Border security; Frau; Freedom of movement; Women illegal aliens; Zwangsprostitution; Social conditions; Asyl; Sex differences; Case studies
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-130) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Women and extra legal border crossing; title: 2. The journey to the border : continuums of crossing; title: 3. Border policing in the borderlands : policing politically active women on the Thai-Burma border; title: 4. A gate at the border?; title: 5. Policing the border within : sex trafficking and the regulation of sex work; title: 6. Women, borders, and violence.