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Women and Immigration Law: New Variations on Classical Feminist Themes book cover

1st Edition

Women and Immigration Law New Variations on Classical Feminist Themes

Edited By Thomas Spijkerboer, Sarah Van Walsum Copyright 2007
284 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

284 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

288 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish
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This book examines immigration law from a gender perspective. It shows how immigration law situates gender conflicts outside the national order, projecting them onto non-western countries, exotic cultures, clandestine labour and criminal organizations. In doing so, immigration law sustains the illusion that gender conflicts have moved beyond the pale of European experience. In fact, the classical... Read more
Part I: Global Context  Border Rights and Rites.  Generalizations, Stereotypes and Gendered Migration.  Citizenship, Noncitizenship and the Status of the Foreign Domestic.  Gendered Borders and United States' Sovereignty  Part II: European Perspectives Gendered Violence in 'New Wars': Challenges to the Refugee Convention.  Problematizing Trafficking for the Sex Sector: A Case of Eastern European Women in the EU.  A Migrant World of Services.  Gender, Migration and Class: Why 'live-in' Domestic Workers are not Compensated for Overtime?  The Case of Mrs Boultif: The Right to Domicile of Women with a Migrant Partner in European Immigration Law  Part III: National Case Studies Transnational Contingency: The Domestic Work of Migrant Women in Austria.  Response and Responsibility: Domestic Violence and Marriage Migration in the UK.  French Immigration Laws: The Sans-Papires Perspectives.  Crossing Borders: Gender, Citizenship and Reproductive Autonomy in Ireland.  Socio-Political and Legal Representations of Migrant Women Sex Labourers in Italy: Between Discourse and Praxis.

Biography

Dr. Sarah van Walsum is senior researcher in Migration law. Dr. Thomas Spijkerboer is professor of Migration law. Both work at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 

"This book provides a refreshing approach to issues relating to women subject to immigration law...it effectively confirms that immigration law can be rejuvenated through the feminist lens and shows how the experiences of migrant women can advance feminist thinking...This book deserves the attention of anyone interested in gender, law and migration." - Vanessa Bettinson and Alwyn Jones, Jounal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law, Vol 22, no 2.

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