Borders, Histories, Existences : Gender and Beyond

This is an insightful historical work on borders and bordered existences, with special emphasis on the gender dimensions of these existences. The author argues that the experiences of women living on borders and in borderlands are definitive of those of the vulnerable communities who bear the brunt of the complex border and security issues. The conditions of migrant women. Women peace campaigners, and victims of humans trafficking and mobile diseases are presented as the markets of bordered existences. Their history is one of negotiations with structure of control, leading to insecurity, subversion, endurance and a different kind of existence. Thus, this book adopts a critical feminist history angle.

Paula Banerjee, a historian, is currently the Head of the Department of South and South East Asian Studies, University at Calcutta, and a member of the Calcutta Research Group. She is the recipient of a number of international fellowships including the Advanced Taft Fellowship (1991-93) and the Indo-French cultural exchange Fellowships. She has been the recipient of the WISCOMP Fellow of Peace Aword (2001). She is also the vice president of the International Association for Study of Forced Migration, which is the international apex body on forced migration.