1st Edition

Regulating the International Movement of Women From Protection to Control

Edited By Sharron FitzGerald Copyright 2011
212 Pages
by Routledge

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197 Pages
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The question of how to conceptualize the relationships between governments and the everyday lives of women has long been the focus of attention among feminists. Feminist scholarship critiques women's lives, experiences and gender inequality in a variety of contexts. In this age of increased internationalism, we are witness to government actor's attempts to use women's alleged `vulnerability' to... Read more

Introduction: Identifying the Problematic: Why Does Vulnerability Matter?, Sharron A. FitzGerald (Editor); 1.Constructing Vulnerabilities and Managing Risk: State responses to forced marriage; 2. Safe spaces for dykes in danger? Refugee law’s production of vulnerable lesbians, Sarah Keenan; 3. Roma, free movement and gendered exclusion in the enlarged European Union, Heli Askola, 4. Life on the margins: A feminist counter-topography of H-2B workers, Deborah Dixon, 5. Vulnerability, silence and pathways to resistance: The case of migrant women in Greece, Nadina Chritopolou and Gabriella Lazaridis, 6. Crossing border, inhabiting spaces: The (in)credibility of sexual violence in asylum appeals, 7. Perspectives on trafficking and the Policing and Crime Act 2009: Challenging notions of vulnerability through a Butlerian lens, Anna Carline, 8.Vulnerability and sex trafficking in the United Kingdom, Sharron A.Fitzgerald; 9. Moral and legal obligations of the state to victims of sex trafficking: Vulnerability and beyond, Tsachi Keren-Paz. 

 

Biography

Sharron Fitzgerald is based at the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences at Aberystwyth University