The Locator -- [(subject = "Illegal aliens--Social conditions")]

11 records matched your query       

Record 8 | Previous Record | MARC Display | Next Record | Search Results
Author:
Pickering, Sharon, 1972- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003094178
Title:
Women, borders, and violence : current issues in asylum, forced migration and trafficking / Sharon Pickering.
Publisher:
Springer,
Copyright Date:
2011
Description:
xi, 133 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
Women illegal aliens--Social conditions.
Border security--Case studies.
Freedom of movement--Sex differences.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-130) and index.
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.
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.
ISBN:
1441902708
9781441902702
OCLC:
(OCoLC)703319010
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

Initiate Another SILO Locator Search

This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.