Women, Mobility and Incarceration: Love and Recasting of Self Across the Bangladesh-India Border

ISBN-13: 9781138039292 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 162 str.

Rimple Mehta

Opis

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.

O autorze

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.