By Sharon Pickering
ISBN-10: 1441902708
ISBN-13: 9781441902702
Women, Borders, and Violence analyzes border policing practices at present proficient through paradigms of securitization opposed to unauthorized mobility and explores the possibility of a paradigm shift to a extra moral law of borders. through concentrating on the methods ladies have sought to go borders in ‘extra’-legal type, the booklet indicates how border enforcement differentially affects on a few populations and makes the case that unauthorized migration calls for administration instead of repulsion and criminalization. whilst dealing with the rising and destiny demanding situations of unauthorized mobility, border policing has to be recast as a functionality of human rights that ends up in larger human safety on the border. interpreting gender and border policing throughout Europe, North the US and Australia, this booklet complements our knowing of the gendered determinants of ‘extra’-legal border crossing, border policing and the altering dynamics of unauthorized mobility.
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This typology demonstrates the significant burden of violence that women experience in these camps. Customary systems of justice in operation in the camps, either with the actual or tacit approval of UNHCR, the Kenyan Government and other international aid agencies, routinely rely on forcing victims of rape to marry their attackers, or if the victim has been attacked by a member of another clan her male relatives may receive compensation which she cannot access (Crisp, 2000). Numerous scholarly and NGO reports highlight that refugee women have experienced rape and other forms of gender-based violence in the camps since their inception.
Statistics in the Maltese context are difficult to obtain as record keeping is limited and the system is still in a nascent stage. We sought to obtain a gender breakdown of these statistics from the Office of the Commissioner for Refugees but no statistics were recorded. In addition, NGOs have expressed concern at the number of irregular migrants turned away at the airport, yet statistics on this number are also unavailable (LIBE, 2006; NSO, 2009). In order to put the increased influx of arrivals into context, in 2007 there were 51,000 arrivals along Europe’s southern borders, including the coastlines of Spain, Greece, Italy and Malta (Ostergaard, 2008).
Some saw their travelling companions murdered on the road” (HRW, 2008). Militias operate along the main roads and stop vehicles transporting refugees. Women recount stories of being stopped and raped by such groups, or watching other women be raped. Many women described how they or other women travelling in their group could be held for up to weeks at a time and repeatedly raped at various points along the border, effectively paying a “toll” for their vehicle to pass through militia-held territory.
Women, Borders, and Violence: Current Issues in Asylum, Forced Migration, and Trafficking by Sharon Pickering
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