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Gender and Embodied Geographies in Latin American Borders
Analyzing the structural problems that create inequality and enable gendered violence in Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina, this book offer a critique of the securitization of borders and the criminalization of human mobility, and propose alternatives to reduce violence.
| Author(s) | By Maria Amelia Viteri (University of Maryland, USA), Ireri Ceja, Cristina Yepez Arroyo. |
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| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format | Paperback / softback |
| Pages | 156 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 25 Sept 2023 |
| Availability | POD |
Analyzing the structural problems that create inequality and enable gendered violence in Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina, this book offer a critique of the securitization of borders and the criminalization of human mobility, and propose alternatives to reduce violence.
Foreword Introduction 1. The link between gender and the global border system 2. Human mobility: between organized crime, border security and criminalization 3. Femicide and feminicide: body geographies 4. Legal and illegal markets and the multiple forms
Maria Amelia Viteri, Ph.D., holds an affiliation as a Research Professor at the Department of Anthropology at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, and as a Research Associate with the Department of Anthropology at University of Maryland, College Park. She
