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Author Viteri, María Amelia, author.

Title Gender and embodied geographies in Latin American borders / María Amelia Viteri ; contributing authors: Iréri Ceja and Cristina Yépez Arroyo
Published New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 155 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Borders and Illegal Markets in Latin America
Borders and illegal markets in Latin America
Contents The link between gender and the global border system -- Human mobility : between organized crime, border security and criminalization -- Femicide and feminicide : body geographies -- Legal and illegal markets and the multiple forms of exploitation -- Breaking dichotomies : Links in the mechanisms of illegal markets in Latin America -- Representations in the Latin American press : images, text, the body and social class -- General conclusions -- Recommendations
Summary "Gender and Embodied Geographies in Latin American Borders is the first study of its kind to bring a gender perspective to studies on violence and "illegal markets" in the region. Analyzing the structural problems that create inequality and enable gendered violence in Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina, the authors offer a critique of the securitization of borders and the criminalization of human mobility, and propose alternatives to reduce violence. Newspaper reports on gender and the variables of violence, human trafficking, people smuggling, missing persons, victims and perpetrators uncover the production and reproduction of discourses and images related to violence. Interviews with strategic actors from non-governmental organizations, academia as well as public policy makers, diversify the experiences from the different voices of authority. Gender and Embodied Geographies in Latin American Borders encourages us to continue to question silence, impunity, the restriction of mobility, the dehumanization of securitization policies and the institutionalization of gender violence. A welcomed must read for scholars, researchers, policy makers, and students of gender studies, security studies, and migration"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version of record
Subject Women -- Violence against -- Latin America
Women -- Latin America -- Social conditions
Borderlands -- Latin America
Informal sector (Economics) -- Latin America
Transnational crime -- Latin America
Emigration and immigration
Sexual minorities -- Violence against
SUBJECT Latin America -- Boundaries. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074880
Latin America -- Emigration and immigration
Subject Latin America
Form Electronic book
Author Ceja, Iréri, 1986- author.
Yépez, Cristina, author.
LC no. 2022008832
ISBN 9781003224204
1003224202
9781000540512
1000540510
9781000540475
1000540472