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

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Rimple Mehta Uma Chakravarti

Women, Mobility and Incarceration

Love and Recasting of Self across the Bangladesh-India Border

Rimple Mehta, Uma Chakravarti

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Routledge
16 August 2018

Gender studies: women; Crime & criminology; Regional geography

Series: Routledge Studies in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship

"This book explores how Bangladeshi women from poor and undereducated/semi-educated backgrounds who have crossed the Indo-Bangladesh border find themselves in prisons serving sentences under the Foreigners Act, 1946. Drawing on original fieldwork, this book explores these women’s understanding of borders and state sovereignty and how the women - from conservative rural and semi-rural backgrounds which impose a strict moral code - adjust to the socio-cultural context of an Indian prison, where being an inmate is ""dishonourable"" in their community.

This book examines the implicit challenge in these women’s action and decisions to these codes of honour, to accepted social norms of their religion and community, and ultimately, the dominantly patriarchal system that marks South Asian society. Further, it focuses on the negotiations that the Bangladeshi women make with the social and political borders they encounter in the process of crossing the Indo-Bangladesh border without requisite documents needed by the state for entry into a ""foreign"" land; how they cope with the daily challenges of living during their imprisonment in a correctional home; and their feelings about their impending return to Bangladesh. Women who are apprehended and criminalised for crossing borders must negotiate with not only the normative understanding of borders which is inherently masculine in nature, but also the gender biased lens through which female mobility is viewed: therefore, they not only cross political borders but also social borders.

This book maps the associations between women’s experiences of mobility and incarceration, and their linkages with social and political borders and the fraught experiences of being in a ‘foreign’ territorial space. It will be important reading for criminologists, sociologists, and those engaged in penology, women’s studies and migration studies."

By: Rimple Mehta
Foreword by: Uma Chakravarti
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9781138039292
ISBN 10: 1138039292
Series: Routledge Studies in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship
Pages: 162
Publication Date: 16 August 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"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."