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Border Humanitarians: Gendered Order and Insecurity on the Thai-Burmese Frontier (Syracuse Studies in Geography) - Tapa blanda

Saltsman, Adam P.

 
9780815637639: Border Humanitarians: Gendered Order and Insecurity on the Thai-Burmese Frontier (Syracuse Studies in Geography)
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ISBN 10: 0815637632 ISBN 13: 9780815637639
Editorial: Syracuse University Press, 2022

Sinopsis

In rich ethnographic detail, Border Humanitarians explores the narratives of Burmese activists in exile who rely on transnational political and social networks to respond to gender violence among the hundreds of thousands of migrants living and working precariously on the Thai border with Myanmar. The activists this book follows must navigate a multiplicity of representations; they are simultaneously "illegal" in Thailand, underpaid feminized laborers in a global garment supply chain, and targets of global North humanitarian intervention with funding to "rescue" and "empower" them. Looking at how these multiple roles overlap, Saltsman asks how state border enforcement regimes, global humanitarianism, and neoliberal capitalist trajectories produce varied sets of constraints and opportunities in migrants’ lives. Here, like in many spaces that are simultaneously zones of refuge and hubs for flexible labor, the borderlands are both a site of dispossession for migrants as well as a resource for collective agency. As Saltsman details, gender itself emerges as an important tool for migrants and aid workers alike to navigate insecurity and assert varying ways of making order amidst the upheaval of displacement and ongoing exclusion.

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Adam P. Saltsman is assistant professor of urban studies and director of the Urban Action Institute at Worcester State University.

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Editorial
Syracuse University Press
Año de publicación
2022
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0815637632
ISBN 13 
9780815637639
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Número de páginas
266
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9780815637684: Border Humanitarians: Gendered Order and Insecurity on the Thai-Burmese Frontier (Syracuse Studies in Geography)

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ISBN 10:  0815637683 ISBN 13:  9780815637684
Editorial: Syracuse University Press, 2022
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