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Title: Imprisonment and migrant women
Author: Almeda, Elisabet
Camps Calvet, Clara
Keywords: Dones immigrants
Empresonament
Discriminació sexual
Women immigrants
Imprisonment
Sex discrimination
Issue Date: 2025
Publisher: Edward Elgar Press
Abstract: Historically, there has been a different way of punishing men and women who have violated criminal or social laws. For women, a type of treatment and control has been developed that has defined them as transgressors not only of criminal laws, but also of their feminine condition. This double condition has led to severe discrimination in the way punishment is applied, which in fact has been forged and consolidated historically since the appearance of the first women’s prisons up to the present day. In the current framework of policies of control and criminalization of foreign population flows, many migrant women, especially Latin American, enter the illegal drug business, due to economic needs, unemployment or as a survival strategy.(...)
Note: Versió postprint del capítol de llibre publicat a: https://www.elgaronline.com/display/book/9781035300389/ch90.xml
It is part of: Capítol del llibre : Laura Oso, Natalia Ribas-Mateos, and Melissa Moralli (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration, Edward Elgar Press, 2025, [ISBN 9781035300389], pp. 287–289
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/218099
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