The book addresses a number of issues that are central to migration analysis, while also centring gender as an essential component that has frequently been ignored or marginalized in such analysis. Sex-trafficking and an almost exclusive focus on sex workers and the sex industry have framed contemporary understandings and interventions on women's extra-legal crossings. Pickering not only critiques the discourse of criminality and victimization that have informed these interventions, she also expands on the various dimensions of women's migration and the specific gendered experience of violence that underpin processes of migration.