RT Article
T1 Unmasking State Harm: The Border as a Theatrical Space of Gendered Violence
JF Violence against women
VO 29
IS 8
SP 1541
OP 1561
A1 Marmo, Marinella 1973-
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1845565096
AB Systemic gendered violence at the borders of the Global North is perpetrated by state actors and their proxies, and yet remains underdiscussed. This article presents numerous cases of such violence to argue that it is not random, does not occur in a vacuum or at the whim of wayward officers. Rather, this gendered state violence is the expression of a patriarchal and hegemonic state that positions the woman at the border as out of place. Deploying performative theories, this article unmasks the masculine agenda enacted at the border to reveal that its violent exhibition of power serves many purposes.
K1 border cavity searches
K1 border performativity
K1 gendered and racialized border violence
K1 state harm
DO 10.1177/10778012231162037