Regulating the international movement of women
Subtitle: from protection to control
By: edited by Sharron A. FitzGerald
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780415579490; 9780203818381
Subjects: Legal status, laws; Women immigrants
Description: "The question of how to conceptualise the relationships between governments and the everyday lives of women has long been the focus of attention among feminists. Feminist scholarship critiques women's lives, experiences and gender inequality in a variety of contexts. In this age of increased internationalism, we are witness to government attempts to use women's alleged 'vulnerability' to justify its humanitarian interventions. Regulating the International Movement of Women interrogates western governments' use of discourses of human vulnerability as a tool to regulate non-western women's migration. In this collection of provocatively argued essays, the contributors wish to reclaim the concept of racialised and gendered vulnerability, from its under-theorised, and thus, ambiguous location in feminist theory. This unique text will be of value to academics, postgraduate and research students in human georgraphy, socio-legal studies, sociology, cultural and post-colonial studies, and political theory, as well as practitioners interested in theoretical and empirical discussions of the state, normativity and the regulation of women's cross-border mobility"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Constructing vulnerabilities and managing risk : state responses to forced marriage / Rosemary Hunter; title: Safe spaces for dykes in danger? : refugee laws production of vulnerable lesbians / Sarah Keenan; title: Roma, free movement and gendered exclusion in the enlarged European Union / Heli Askola; title: Life on the margins : a feminist counter-topography of H-2B workers / Deborah Dixon; title: Vulnerability, silence and pathways to resistance : the case of migrant women in Greece / Nadina Christopolou and Gabriella Lazaridis; title: Crossing border, inhabiting spaces : the (in)credibility of sexual violence in asylum appeals / Helen Baillot, Sharon Cowan and Vanessa E. Munro; title: Perspectives on trafficking and the Policing and Crime Act 2009 : challenging notions of vulnerability through a butlerian lens / Anna Carline; title: Vulnerability and sex trafficking in the United Kingdom.