Undesirable: Passionate Mobility and Women’s Defiance of French Colonial Policing, 1919–1952 - Jennifer Anne Boittin - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226822235 - November 16, 2022
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Jennifer Anne Boittin
Undesirable: Passionate Mobility and Women’s Defiance of French Colonial Policing, 1919–1952

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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.

288 pages, 16 halftones

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released November 16, 2022
ISBN13 9780226822235
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 288
Dimensions 236 × 159 × 25 mm   ·   582 g
Language English  

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