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Women, Borders, and Violence
Sharon Pickering
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Description for Women, Borders, and Violence
Hardcover. Woman at the Border examines international border policing practices and analyses the way these policies impact women. More ethical strategies are explored, charting new approaches to border management focused on human rights and human security. Num Pages: 144 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JKV; JMG; JPA; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 12. Weight in Grams: 374.
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 rather than repulsion and criminalization. When facing the emerging and future challenges of unauthorized mobility, border policing must be recast as a function of human rights that results in greater human security at the ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
133
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781441902702
SKU
V9781441902702
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Sharon Pickering
Associate Professor Sharon Pickering lectures in criminology at Monash University. She led the three year study between Monash and Victoria Police on Counter-Terrorism policing and she is the co-author of the book Counter-Terrorism Policing: Community, Cohesion and Security (Springer, 2008). She has seven other books including Women Policing and Resistance in Northern Ireland (2002), Critical Chatter: Women and Human Rights ... Read more
Reviews for Women, Borders, and Violence
From the reviews: “Women, Borders, and Violence offers a refreshing approach to the study of migration and gender within the field of criminology. … Pickering’s book focuses on the migration of women within the context of the global economy, in particular, their unregulated labour and their precarious migration status. … it offers an alternative analytical approach for criminologists writing ... Read more