Jennifer Anne Boittin

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 colour, or...