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Gendering Border Studies

Author : Jane Aaron,Henrice Altink,Chris Weedon
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780708323113

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Gendering Border Studies by Jane Aaron,Henrice Altink,Chris Weedon Pdf

The study of borders has recently undergone significant transitions, reflecting changes in the functions of boundaries themselves, as the world political map has experienced transformations. Gender (defined as the knowledge about perceived distinctions between the sexes) is an important signifier of borders as constructed and contested lines of differences. In the interplay with other categories of difference like class, race, ethnicity, and religion, it plays a major role in giving meaning to different forms of borders. It is not surprising, then, that an increasing number of studies in the last years have aimed for a gendering of border studies. This book explores this new interdisciplinary field and develops it further. The main questions it asks are: How do we define 'borders', 'frontiers' and 'boundaries' in different disciplinary approaches of gendered border studies? What were and are the main fields of gendered border studies in different fields? What might be important questions for future research? And how useful is an inter- or transdisciplinary approach for gendered border studies? Sixteen established scholars from various disciplines contribute chapters in which they set out how the issue of gender and borders has been approached in their discipline and describe what they expect from future research.

Constructing Identities

Author : Antonio Medina-Rivera,Lee Wilberschied
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443850926

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Constructing Identities by Antonio Medina-Rivera,Lee Wilberschied Pdf

The basic concern of border studies is to examine and analyze interactions that occur when two groups come into contact with one another. Acculturation and globalization are at the heart of border studies, and cultural studies scholars try to describe the possible interactions in terms of conflicts and resolutions that become the result of those possible encounters. The present book is a peer-reviewed selection of papers presented during the IV Crossing Over Symposium at Cleveland State University held in October, 2011, and it is a follow-up to our discussion on border studies. The main focus of this volume is historical, [inter]national, gender and racial borders, and the implications that all of them have in the construction of an identity.

Ethnicity, Gender and the Border Economy

Author : Latife Akyüz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317140771

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Ethnicity, Gender and the Border Economy by Latife Akyüz Pdf

For whom and why are borders drawn? What are the symbolic projections of these physical realities? And what are the symbolic projections of these physical realities? Constituted by experience and memory, borders shape a "border image" in the minds and social memory of people beyond the lines of the state. In the case of the Turkey-Georgia border, the image of the border has often been constructed as an economic reality that creates "conditional permeabilities" rather than political emphases. This book puts forward the argument that participation in this economic life reshapes the relationship between the ethnic groups who live in the borderland as well as gender relations. By drawing on detailed ethnographic research at the Turkey-Georgia border, life at the border is explored in terms of family relations, work life, and intra- and inter-ethnic group relations. Using an intersectional approach, the book charts the perceptions and representations of how different ethnic and gendered groups experience interactions among themselves, with each other, and with the changing economic context. This book offers a rich, empirically based account of the intersectional and multidimensional forms of economic activity in border regions. It will be of interest to students, researchers, and policy makers alike working in geography, economics, ethnic studies, gender studies, international relations, and political studies.

The Gender of Borders

Author : Jane Freedman,Alice Latouche,Adelina Miranda,Nina Sahraoui,Glenda Santana de Andrade,Elsa Tyszler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000824551

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The Gender of Borders by Jane Freedman,Alice Latouche,Adelina Miranda,Nina Sahraoui,Glenda Santana de Andrade,Elsa Tyszler Pdf

This book brings an intersectional perspective to border studies, drawing on case studies from across the world to consider the ways in which notably gender and race dynamics change the ways in which people cross international borders, and how diffuse and virtual borders impact on migrants' experiences. By bringing together 11 ethnographies, the book demonstrates the necessity for in-depth empirical research to understand the class, gender and race inequalities that shape contemporary borders. In doing so the volume sheds light on how migration control produces gendered violence at physical borders but also through the politics of vulnerability across borders and social boundaries. It places embodied narratives at the heart of the analysis which sheds light on the agency and the many patterns of resistance of migrants themselves. As such, it will appeal to scholars of migration and diaspora studies with interests in gender.

Gender and Embodied Geographies in Latin American Borders

Author : Maria Amelia Viteri,Iréri Ceja,Cristina Yépez Arroyo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000540512

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Gender and Embodied Geographies in Latin American Borders by Maria Amelia Viteri,Iréri Ceja,Cristina Yépez Arroyo Pdf

Gender and Embodied Geographies in Latin American Borders is the first study of its kind to bring a gender perspective to studies on violence and "illegal markets" in the region. Analyzing the structural problems that create inequality and enable gendered violence in Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina, the authors offer a critique of the securitization of borders and the criminalization of human mobility, and propose alternatives to reduce violence. Newspaper reports on gender and the variables of violence, human trafficking, people smuggling, missing persons, victims and perpetrators uncover the production and reproduction of discourses and images related to violence. Interviews with strategic actors from nongovernmental organizations, academia, as well as public policy makers diversify the experiences from the different voices of authority. Gender and Embodied Geographies in Latin American Borders encourages us to continue to question silence, impunity, the restriction of mobility, the dehumanization of securitization policies and the institutionalization of gender violence. A welcomed must read for scholars, researchers, policy makers, and students of gender studies, security studies and migration.

Crossing Borders in Gender and Culture

Author : Konrad Gunesch,Olena Lytovka,Aleksandra Tryniecka
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527516830

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Crossing Borders in Gender and Culture by Konrad Gunesch,Olena Lytovka,Aleksandra Tryniecka Pdf

While gender issues are almost always multidimensional and complex, this book discusses them from a cultural angle and with a focus on crossing borders, to represent their concepts meaningfully and to illuminate their realities as sharply as possible. Its five parts detail specific aspects and issues within that focus, namely communication, literary representation, equality and violence, work and politics, and cross-cultural connections. This combination of a wide topical range with specific discussions of gender issues makes the volume’s insights worthwhile for a wide range of readers, from individuals and groups engaging with current gender challenges, to institutional and political decision-makers entrusted with improving gender relations on national or international levels, up to social, economic or educational institutions empowered to implement such solutions in everyday reality. Its “unity in diversity” contributes to gender and cultural studies by offering considerations and conclusions that are specific and generalizable, theoretically robust and empirically tested, professionally rational and poetically ravishing.

Gender Transitions Along Borders

Author : Marlene Solis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317130086

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Gender Transitions Along Borders by Marlene Solis Pdf

In recent decades, women living in border cities have taken on new roles and have become one of the most vulnerable population groups; experiencing the effects of the economic crisis of the early 21st century and the consequent increase in social inequality and violence. This situation is particularly evident for the northern borderlands of Mexico and Morocco. The geopolitical position of these regions is defined by their strong existing asymmetry with their neighbouring countries: the United States, in the case of Mexico, and the Mediterranean European countries, in the case of Morocco. This book contributes to the understanding of current changes in the workplace, in family, in sexuality and sexual violence within the setting of the borderlands, through various studies addressing the manner in which these transformations are interpreted and experienced by women in everyday life and in their individual and collective agency.

Borders, Histories, Existences

Author : Paula Banerjee
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8132102266

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Borders, Histories, Existences by Paula Banerjee Pdf

Borders, Histories, Existences: Gender and Beyond contends that borders are, by definition, lines of inclusion and exclusion established by the state. It analyses how states construct borders and try to make them static and rigid and how bordered existences, such as women, migrant workers and victims of human trafficking, destabilise the rigid constructs. It explores the political conditions that have made borders problematic in post-colonial South Asia and how these borders have become regions of extreme control or violence.

Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries

Author : M. Morokvasic-Müller,Umut Erel,Kyoko Shinozaki
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783663095293

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Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries by M. Morokvasic-Müller,Umut Erel,Kyoko Shinozaki Pdf

The two volumes Gender and Migration: crossing borders and shifting boundaries offer an interdisciplinary perspective on women and men on the move today, exploring the diversification of migratory patterns and its implication in different parts of the world. It reflects the vibrant scholarly debates as well as unique learning and teaching experiences of the Project Area Migration, the International Women's University. While pointing to historical continuities, it is shown how contemporary ways of bridging time and space are shaped by the new opportunities - or lack of them - related to the process of globalization. This shaping is gendered. Gendering migration paves the way for further intersectional analysis. Vol. I critically examinesmobility, globalization and migration policy from a gender perspective. It includes case studies on internal and international migratory processes inand from Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia and North America. Furthermore it makes an important contribution to the issue of agency and empowerment emerging from migrant women's experience.

Gender and Embodied Geographies in Latin American Borders

Author : Marìa Amelia Viteri,Iréri Ceja,Cristina Yépez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1003224202

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Gender and Embodied Geographies in Latin American Borders by Marìa Amelia Viteri,Iréri Ceja,Cristina Yépez Pdf

"Gender and Embodied Geographies in Latin American Borders is the first study of its kind to bring a gender perspective to studies on violence and "illegal markets" in the region. Analyzing the structural problems that create inequality and enable gendered violence in Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina, the authors offer a critique of the securitization of borders and the criminalization of human mobility, and propose alternatives to reduce violence. Newspaper reports on gender and the variables of violence, human trafficking, people smuggling, missing persons, victims and perpetrators uncover the production and reproduction of discourses and images related to violence. Interviews with strategic actors from non-governmental organizations, academia as well as public policy makers, diversify the experiences from the different voices of authority. Gender and Embodied Geographies in Latin American Borders encourages us to continue to question silence, impunity, the restriction of mobility, the dehumanization of securitization policies and the institutionalization of gender violence. A welcomed must read for scholars, researchers, policy makers, and students of gender studies, security studies, and migration"--

Gender, Sexuality and Identities of the Borderlands

Author : Suzanne Clisby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429877476

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Gender, Sexuality and Identities of the Borderlands by Suzanne Clisby Pdf

Drawing on border thinking, postcolonial and transnational feminisms, and queer theory, Gender, Sexuality and Identities of the Borderlands brings an intersectional feminist and queer lens to understandings of borderlands, liminality, and lives lived at the margins of socio-cultural and sexual normativities. Bringing together new and contemporary interdisciplinary research from across diverse global contexts, this collection explores the lived experiences of what Gloria Anzaldúa might have called ‘threshold people’, people who live among and in-between different worlds. While it is often challenging, difficult, and even dangerous, inhabiting marginal spaces, living at the borders of socio-cultural, religious, sexual, ethnic, or gendered norms can create possibilities for developing unique ways of seeing and understanding the worlds within which we live. This collection casts a spotlight on the margins, those ‘queer spaces’ in literary, cinematic, and cultural borderlands; postcolonial and transnational feminist perspectives on movement and migration; and critical analyses of liminal lives within and between socio-cultural borders. Each chapter within this unique book brings a critical insight into diverse global human experiences in the 21st Century.

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands

Author : Zalfa Feghali,Deborah Toner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 036743959X

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The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands by Zalfa Feghali,Deborah Toner Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands maps the relationship between gender and borderlands at a global scale, and sets the agenda for developing a global composite field of gender and borderlands studies. It is an indispensable resource for scholars and students engaged in border studies and gender studies.

Borderlands in European Gender Studies

Author : Teresa Kulawik,Zhanna Kravchenko
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000707489

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Borderlands in European Gender Studies by Teresa Kulawik,Zhanna Kravchenko Pdf

Challenging persistent geopolitical asymmetries in feminist knowledge production, this collection depicts collisions between concepts and lived experiences, between academic feminism and political activism, between the West as generalizable and the East as the concrete Other. Borderlands in European Gender Studies narrows the gap between cultural analysis and social theory, addressing feminist theory’s epistemological foundations and its capacity to confront the legacies of colonialism and socialism. The contributions demonstrate the enduring worth of feminist concepts for critical analysis, conceptualize resistance to multiple forms of oppression, and identify the implications of the decoupling of cultural and social feminist critique for the analysis of gender relations in a postsocialist space. This book will be of import to activists and researchers in women’s and gender studies, comparative gender politics and policy, political science, sociology, contemporary history, and European studies. It is suitable for use as a supplemental text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in a range of fields.

Gender and Mobility in Africa

Author : Kalpana Hiralal,Zaheera Jinnah
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319657837

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Gender and Mobility in Africa by Kalpana Hiralal,Zaheera Jinnah Pdf

This volume examines gender and mobility in Africa though the central themes of borders, bodies and identity. It explores perceptions and engagements around ‘borders’; the ways in which ‘bodies’ and women’s bodies in particular, shape and are affected by mobility, and the making and reproduction of actual and perceived ‘boundaries’; in relation to gender norms and gendered identify. Over fourteen original chapters it makes revealing contributions to the field of migration and gender studies. Combining historical and contemporary perspectives on mobility in Africa, this project contextualises migration within a broad historical framework, creating a conceptual and narrative framework that resists post-colonial boundaries of thought on the subject matter. This multidisciplinary work uses divergent methodologies including ethnography, archival data collection, life histories and narratives and multi-country survey level data and engages with a range of conceptual frameworks to examine the complex forms and outcomes of mobility on the continent today. Contributions include a range of case studies from across the continent, which relate either conceptually or methodologically to the central question of gender identity and relations within migratory frameworks in Africa. This book will appeal to researchers and scholars of politics, history, anthropology, sociology and international relations.

Informal Trade, Gender and the Border Experience

Author : Olga Sasunkevich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317116837

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Informal Trade, Gender and the Border Experience by Olga Sasunkevich Pdf

Detailing the history of a well-known phenomenon of post-socialism - cross-border petty trade and smuggling - as the history of a practice in daily life from a gendered perspective, this book considers how changes in these practices in a particular border region, between Belarus and Lithuania, have been accompanied, and to some extent provoked, by changes in the border regime. It looks at how the selective openness of the Belarus-Lithuania border worked during different periods over the last twenty years and how it influenced the involvement of different social groups in shuttle trade practices. Foremost, this book considers how political borders implement and/or intensify social boundaries and suggests that the selective openness of political borders, a prerequisite for the existence of female shuttle trade activities, is primarily built upon people’s social characteristics. However, it claims that what can be seen as the grounds for growing inequality at a global level, at a local one may have an important resourceful meaning for various social groups including those usually perceived as disadvantaged, such as widowed female retirees or unemployed single women with children.