Undesirable: Passionate Mobility and Women's Defiance of French Colonial Policing, 1919-1952

by Jennifer Anne Boittin

Book Overview

Archival research into policing and surveillance of migrant women illuminates pressing contemporary issues.

Examining little-known policing archives in France, Senegal, and Cambodia, Jennifer Anne Boittin unearths the stories of hundreds of women labeled "undesirable" by the French colonial police and society in the early twentieth century. These "undesirables" were often women traveling alone, women who were poor or ill, women of color,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226822257
• ISBN13: 9780226822259
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"