Women, Borders, and Violence Current Issues in Asylum, Forced Migrat

Women, Borders, and Violence 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 way

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Sharon Pickering

Women, Borders, and Violence Current Issues in Asylum, Forced Migration and Trafficking

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Professor Sharon Pickering Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology Monash University Caulfield East, VIC 3145 Australia [email protected]

ISBN 978-1-4419-0270-2     e-ISBN 978-1-4419-0271-9 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-0271-9 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Acknowledgements

I am grateful to the colleagues who worked with me on this book—Alison Gerard and Marie Segrave who co-author two of the chapters. I am also indebted to the assistance of Sarah Segal and Mary O’Kane as well as the painstaking work of Julia Farrell. My colleagues at Monash University have, as always, been enormously supportive and generate a wonderful place to work—Jude McCulloch, Dean Wilson, Marie Segrave, JaneMaree Maher, Danielle Tyson, Anna Eriksson and Bree Carlton. I am grateful to team at Crest Premedia Solutions, Pune, India for their patience and care of the manuscript. This book owes an intellectual debt to the work of Leanne Weber and Nancy Wonders who always improve my thinking and have engaged me on many of the issues explored in this book. Of course, any errors are mine alone. Parts of Chapter 4 draw on work presented to and published by the International Association of Refugee Law Judges, and some data are reproduced from Pickering and Lambert, Global Issues, Women and Justice, published by the Institute of Criminology. Chapter 6 includes excerpts from Pickering, S., ‘Transversal Policing’ in The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology (2004). My love and thanks to Tom and to my parents for their endless and unwavering support. Wesley and Amelia sat just off my elbows for most of the writing of this book and have shown patience and understanding beyond any reasonable expectation for 2- and 4-years olds—thank you.

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Contents

1  W  omen and Extra Legal Border Crossing����������������������������������������������    1 1 Introduction��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������    1 2 Counting Women’s Extra Legal Border Crossing����������������������������������    5