Women and border policing at the edges of Europe

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7843663
AutoresMary Bosworth (0000-0002-7750-5109, University of Oxford), Andriani Fili (University of Oxford, autor de correspondencia), Sharon Pickering (0000-0002-0080-6296, Monash University)
Año2018
Volumen44
Número13
Páginas2182-2196
Fecha de publicación2018-10-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNew Community (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1369183x.2017.1408459
OpenAlexW2770101903
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas51

While states around the world have responded to mass mobility by increasing border policing, our knowledge of the daily reality of that form of policing remains limited. How migrant women are policed has been particularly neglected. The political and practical difficulty of examining the context, process and experience of border control practices appears often to be insurmountable. This article contributes to filling some of the gaps in our knowledge by drawing on ethnographic data collected over a 12-month period in Greek immigration detention centres from 2011 to 2012. In it we examine the experience of policing and irregular entry across the Greek Turkey border – an entry-point to Europe that is routinely regarded as being in crisis. As we will demonstrate, border policing at this site is capricious and unpredictable. It is also highly racialised and gendered

Border crossing · Border Security · Criminology · Demographic economics · Economic geography · Economics · Ethnography · Geography · Immigration · Irregular migration · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Sex work and related issues