Women and Borders

Refugees, Migrants and Communities

Seema Shekhawat, Emanuela C. Del Re (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2019
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-0-7556-0113-4 (ISBN)

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Borders - whether settled or contested, violent or calm, closed or open - may have a direct, and often acute, human impact. Those affected may be people living nearby, those attempting to cross them and even those who succeed in doing so. At the border, vulnerable refugee and migrant communities, especially women, are exposed to state-centred boundary practices, paving the way for both their alienation and exploitation. The militarization of borders subjugates the very position of women in these marginalized areas and often subjects them to further victimization, which is facilitated by patriarchal socio-cultural practice. Structural violence is endemic to these regions and gender interlocks with their perimeters to reinforce and shape violence. This book locates gender and violence along geographical edges and critically examines the gendered experiences of women as global border residents and border crossers. Broadly, it explores two questions. First, what are women's experiences of engaging with borders? Second, where are women positioned in the theory and practice of marking, remarking and demarking these margins?
Offering a nuanced and thorough approach, this book suggests that research on borders and violence needs to focus on how bordered violence shapes the embodiment of gender identity and norms and how they are challenged. It examines an array of issues including forced migration, trafficking and cross-border ties to explore how gender and borders intersect.

Seema Shekhawat is a Political Scientist with a PhD on the intersection of gender, conflict and displacement. She has researched and taught at the Universities of Jammu and Mumbai, India and is the author of Gender, Conflict and Peace in Kashmir and editor of Female Combatants in Conflict and Peace. Emanuela C. Del Re is Professor of Political Sociology at the University Niccolo Cusano in Rome. She is the chair and founder of EPOS International Mediating and Negotiating Operational Agency and creator of MY FUTURE project for the Syrian Refugees funded by the Italian Foreign Affairs Ministry and by the European Commission. Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra is a social scientist with a PhD in conflict resolution from the University of Massachusetts Boston. He received the Scholar of Peace Award (New Delhi) in 2007 and Kodikara Award for Young South Asian Researcher (Colombo) in 2010. Dr. Mahapatra has published extensively on issues related to conflict and peace. He is the author of Conflict Management in Kashmir and editor of Conflict and Peace in Eurasia.

Introduction: Borders, Violence and Gender by Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Seema Shekhawat and Emanuela C. Del Re
Gendering the European borders: The Role of Female Migrants and Refugees by Emanuela C. Del Re
The Refugee’s Passage: Liminality, Gendered Habits, and the Emergence of Difference in Flight by Leila Hudson
Pregnant Crossings: A Political Economy of Care on Europe’s External Borders by Vanessa Grotti, Cynthia Malakasis, Chiara Quagliariello, Nina Sahraoui and Daniela Arias Vargas
Acknowledging and Addressing the Risks of Gender-Based Violence that Follow Refugees Across Borders: Escalation of Domestic Violence in Refugee Populations by Melinda Wells, Suhail Abualsameed, and Suse Prosser
Trapped in a Cycle of Abuse and Violence: A Case Study of Nigerian Women in Italy by Carolina Montenegro
Unhindered Flow of Gendered Suffering through India-Nepal Border: Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation by Seema Shekhawat
Migration, Border Crossing and Women: Female Migrant Sexualities Between Objectification and Empowerment by Andreanne Bissonnettea and Elisabeth Vallet
Gendered Everyday Bordering: An Ethnographic Case Study on the Border Between Finland and Russia by Olga Davydova-Minguet and Pirjo Pöllänen
Gendered Geographical Edges: Border, Contestation and Women in Kashmir by Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra
Kakching Gardens: Experiments in Normalcy in Manipur by Duncan McDuie-Ra

Erscheinungsdatum	04.07.2019
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	313 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-7556-0113-0 / 0755601130
ISBN-13	978-0-7556-0113-4 / 9780755601134
Zustand	Neuware