Women, Mobility and Incarceration: Love and Recasting of Self across the Bangladesh-India Border (Routledge Studies in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship) - Softcover

Mehta, Rimple

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367483548 ISBN 13: 9780367483548

Verlag: Routledge, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

This book explores the experience of socio-economically deprived women from Bangladesh, who have been apprehended and incarcerated as illegal migrants in Kolkata, India and broadens the gaze of border criminology beyond the Anglo/American context.

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Rimple Mehta is an Assistant Professor at the Tata Institute for Social Sciences. Previously she was an Assistant Professor at the School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University. She studied Sociology, Social Work and Women's Studies and has written on gender, borders, sexuality and prisons, especially criminalization of mobility and Bangladeshi women in Indian prisons. Her paper titled "So Many Ways to Love You/Self: Negotiating Love in a Prison" won the 2013 Enloe Award. She has worked with organisations such as Swayam and networks such as Maitree against violence on women in West Bengal, as well as with women prisoners in Mumbai, Kolkata and The Netherlands.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0367483548
• ISBN 13: 9780367483548
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 184
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