Women, Borders, and Violence: Current Issues in Asylum, Forced Migration, and Trafficking

by Sharon Pickering

Book Overview

Women at the Border analyzes border policing practices currently informed by paradigms of securitization against unauthorized mobility and explores the potential for a paradigm shift to a more ethical regulation of borders. By focusing on the ways women have sought to cross borders in 'extra'-legal fashion, the book shows how border enforcement differentially impacts on some populations and makes the case that unauthorized migration requires management...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441902708
• ISBN13: 9781441902702
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 133 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"