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Undesirable: Passionate Mobility and Women’s Defiance of French Colonial Policing, 1919–1952

Jennifer Anne Boittin

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Description:Archival research into policing and surveillance of migrant women illuminates pressing contemporary issues. Examining little-known policing archives in France, Senegal, and Cambodia, Jennifer Boittin unearths the stories of hundreds of women labeled “undesirable” by the French colonial police in the early twentieth century. These “undesirables” were often women traveling alone, women who were poor or ill, women of color, or women whose intimate lives were deemed unruly. To refute the label and be able to move freely, they spoke, or wrote impassioned letters, with some emphasizing their “undesirable” qualities to suggest that they needed the care and protection of the state to support their movements and others using the empire’s own laws around Frenchness and mobility to challenge state interference. Tacking between advocacy and supplication, these women summoned intimate details to move beyond, contest, or confound surveillance efforts, bringing to life a practice that Boittin terms “passionate mobility.” In considering how ordinary women pursued autonomy, security, companionship, or simply a better existence in the face of surveillance and control, Undesirable illuminates pressing contemporary issues of migration and violence.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Undesirable: Passionate Mobility and Women’s Defiance of French Colonial Policing, 1919–1952. To get started finding Undesirable: Passionate Mobility and Women’s Defiance of French Colonial Policing, 1919–1952, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Archival research into policing and surveillance of migrant women illuminates pressing contemporary issues. Examining little-known policing archives in France, Senegal, and Cambodia, Jennifer Boittin unearths the stories of hundreds of women labeled “undesirable” by the French colonial police in the early twentieth century. These “undesirables” were often women traveling alone, women who were poor or ill, women of color, or women whose intimate lives were deemed unruly. To refute the label and be able to move freely, they spoke, or wrote impassioned letters, with some emphasizing their “undesirable” qualities to suggest that they needed the care and protection of the state to support their movements and others using the empire’s own laws around Frenchness and mobility to challenge state interference. Tacking between advocacy and supplication, these women summoned intimate details to move beyond, contest, or confound surveillance efforts, bringing to life a practice that Boittin terms “passionate mobility.” In considering how ordinary women pursued autonomy, security, companionship, or simply a better existence in the face of surveillance and control, Undesirable illuminates pressing contemporary issues of migration and violence.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Undesirable: Passionate Mobility and Women’s Defiance of French Colonial Policing, 1919–1952. To get started finding Undesirable: Passionate Mobility and Women’s Defiance of French Colonial Policing, 1919–1952, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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