Gwenola Ricordeau

A case study about the global policing of Third World intermarried women: Filipino women and marriage migration

Marriage migration is a gendered phenomenon shaped by States policies that may encourage, control, or prohibit it. Female marriage migrants (in particular from Third World countries) face growing difficulties to reunite with their fiances/husbands, due to restrictive migration policies implemented in both sending and receiving countries. Based on a fieldwork on Filipino marriage migrants, the paper describes, in the context of a globalized marriage market, the global policing of female marriage migrants and how their marriages are expected to be romantic and female marriage migrants to perform love.

In the Steps of Monte Cristo and the “Last Queen of France”: The French Revolution, Literature and Tourism

If there is no doubt that prison tourism, whether it concerns decommissioned (e.g., Wilson 2008) or operational sites of confinement (e.g. Piche and Walby 2010), constitutes a field of study in English-language carceral studies, questions arising from it have, until recently, been neglected by French research. In metropolitan France, a number of locations within the country’s rich carceral heritage, made up of several hundred sites (Madranges 2013), can be visited, including most castles and fortresses (e.g. the Château of Vincennes, of Angers, etc.) and abbeys (e.g., Fontevraud, Mont Saint-Michel, Clairvaux, etc.). Although the Bastille is the country’s most famous place of imprisonment it cannot be visited and with good reason.1 While many prisons were built during the nineteenth century, most were established in buildings previously used for other functions. To cite a few, Rennes (in 1809) and Ensisheim (in 1811) were erected in poorhouses, Fontevraud (in 1804) and Clairvaux (in 1808) came to be in religious buildings seized from the Roman Catholic Church during the French Revolution, and Nimes (in 1820) and Belle-Ile-en-Mer (in 1850) were located in ancient castles and fortresses. In some cases, those building conversions into prisons have resulted in their preservation (Petit et al. 2002). Some of those sites still function as prisons, but most have been reconverted, if not destroyed.

Des prisons médiatiques et des prisonniers: L’institution carcérale et la pénalité face aux évolutions de l’espace public

O artigo enfoca as relacoes entre o espaco publico, os prisioneiros e a instituicao carceraria, onde se negocia continuamente as fronteiras do publico/privado. A qualificacao da prisao como uma “instituicao total” e cada vez mais discutido, uma vez que sua crescente abertura ao exterior e processo de democratizacao permite aos prisioneiros o acesso a informacao global e ate mesmo a sua liberdade de expressao. Mas os encarcerados, assim como seus familiares, estao excluidos dos debates recorrentes sobre a necessaria reforma prisional. A normalizacao das condicoes de detencao faz as sentencas se parecerem jogos (tipo “reality-show”), em que o dentro e cada vez mais dificil de se distinguir do fora, invadido pelo monitoramento de video e fenomenos virtuais. As evolucoes das penas se traduzem por uma revolucao do e no espaco privado do condenado. Palavras-chave: Prisao; Detento; Realidade virtual; Debates publicos; Punicao