Anti-trafficking and its discontents: women's migrations and work in an Indian borderland

Ghosh, Sahana

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2014.970139

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“…Feminist scholars working on mobility across Indian borderlands show that ‘women’s mobility across borders is one of the sites on which political anxieties regarding the nation-state unfold’ (Ibrahim, 2018, p. 1). Drawing on Rumford’s ‘Borderwork’, Ghosh (2015) depicts that hyperactive borderwork prevails on women’s mobility on the India–Bangladesh borderland. She argues that women’s migration for work is framed by the prescriptive sexual morality prevalent in this region.…”

Section: Gender Territory and Borders In Post-colonial Indiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Women, Marriage and Migration in the Bangladeshi Enclaves in the India–Bangladesh Borderland

Roy

2023

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs

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Based on an ethnographic study of former Bangladeshi enclaves in India, the article explores how the India–Bangladesh border is negotiated and reproduced in the everyday spaces of people living in the borderland that is often overlooked by the usual representation of geopolitical nationalism and hard realities of the barbed wire. Enclaves are fragmented territories surrounded by another state, such as Bangladeshi enclaves surrounded by Indian land and vice versa. Being abandoned by the home state, the former enclave residents were deprived of identity documents, and as a result, precluded from judicial and citizenship rights. The article focuses on marriage-related migration of women that was often used as a way out to overcome the vulnerabilities associated with living in the enclaves. Marriage proposal inside the host country promises access to public goods like a ‘Ration Card’, or identity documents like an ‘Aadhaar card’, thus determining the possible migration of women—their life paths and destinations across the enclaves and the host country. The latitudes of such migratory life courses of women along the border are determined by their religion and economic status. The study shows that these practices, although often necessary for survival, subsequently compromise the agency of the women in the process.

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Section: Gender Territory and Borders In Post-colonial Indiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Women, Marriage and Migration in the Bangladeshi Enclaves in the India–Bangladesh Borderland

Roy

2023

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs

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Section: A Human Trafficking As Global Issuesmentioning

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“…In South Asia, India's eastern border areas with Bangladesh have been the target of concerted anti-trafficking interventions for decades, to stop human trafficking from Bangladesh into India transiting through these areas and girls and women from these areas to other parts of the country [6]. By centering borderland women's narratives of migrant work and its consequences, Ghosh found a different migration angle [6]. The migration sustains families' economic wellbeing and becomes the main arena in which women stake out claims to their major roles in economic and social transformations of their material and spatial realities.…”

Section: A Human Trafficking As Global Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tech Tools for Anticipating Human Trafficking in Archipelago State

Nulhaqim

Deliarnoor

Suryaningsih

2021

Int. J. Adv. Sci. Eng. Inf. Technol.

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The current mitigation efforts of human trafficking fail to combat cross-border trafficking in the sea. On the other hand, most of the studies in human trafficking have not dealt with the context of transporting victims via seaport. This paper attempts to critically discuss the process and consequences of transporting victims of human trafficking via illegal seaport. Part of the objective is to propose compatible tech tools to anticipate potential victims. A qualitative approach was employed since investigating human trafficking in Riau Islands' seaports needs a robust research method. Thus, a case study is selected to focus on a single exit point phenomenon for sending migrant workers who have been identified as a group at high risk of human trafficking. Riau Islands, specifically Bintan Island and Batam Island, were selected as samples of case studies because these are critical locations for sending and repatriating victims. The current study found that an archipelago country like Indonesia deals with multifaceted challenges in combating human trafficking. Moreover, there is a significant shift in human trafficking crime from recruiting to executing due to the cyber world's invention. One unanticipated finding is that social networks and cybercrime have expanded the possibilities for supplying victims. This study contributes to research on human trafficking by introducing tech tools that may help overcome the problems.

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“…Discussions, most notably in Gender, Place and Culture , have for some time engaged with research on migration, gender, and trafficking (see, for example, Mai, 2013; Van Liempt, 2011). This work includes a specific focus on post‐trafficking returns (Richardson et al., 2009), as well as broader research across Asian contexts on gendered social status relating to migration success and failure (see Ghosh, 2015; Rankin, 2003; Yea, 2012). Nevertheless, this feminist scholarship has also been largely marginal to mainstream research in Geography, including migration research.…”

Section: Trafficking and Returnmentioning

confidence: 99%

Geographies of stigma: Post‐trafficking experiences

Laurie

Richardson

2020

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper explores the relationship between human trafficking and geographies of stigma based on qualitative research in Nepal. It explains how geographies of stigma circumscribe the agency of those who return from having experienced trafficking, affecting their livelihoods and mobilities. It examines processes of spatial differentiation, territorialisation and scalar hierarchies in relation to the production and navigation of stigma.

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Anti-trafficking and its discontents: women's migrations and work in an Indian borderland

Cited by 13 publications

References 37 publications

Women, Marriage and Migration in the Bangladeshi Enclaves in the India–Bangladesh Borderland

Women, Marriage and Migration in the Bangladeshi Enclaves in the India–Bangladesh Borderland

Tech Tools for Anticipating Human Trafficking in Archipelago State

Geographies of stigma: Post‐trafficking experiences

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