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Incarcerated stories : Indigenous women migrants and violence in the settler-capitalist state / Shannon Speed

Author
Speed, Shannon, 1964-
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Physical Description
1 online resource (163 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
Chapter One. Power and vulnerability through Indigenous women's stories -- Chapter Two. Domestic departures: vulnerability in the settler state -- Chapter Three. Perilous passages: the neoliberal multicriminal settler state -- Chapter Four. Carceral containments: captivity in the Homeland Security state -- Chapter Five. Beyond detention: undocumented dangers and deportability -- Conclusion: Neoliberal multicriminalism and the enduring settler state -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary
"Incarcerated stories uses ethnography and oral history to document and assess the plight of Indigenous women migrants from Mexico and Central America to the United States. Their harrowing experiences of violence before, during, and after their migration parallel the worst stories we hear about immigrants' journeys; but as Speed argues, the circumstances for Indigenous women are especially devastating against the backdrop of neoliberal economic and political reforms that have taken hold in Latin America as well as the U.S. First these women were promised greater autonomy and economic opportunity under reforms meant to promote Indigenous rights at home, but the attention given to Indigenous recognition veiled policies that furthered the economic disruption for women"--
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ISBN
9781469653143 (electronic bk.)
1469653141 (electronic bk.)
9781469653112
1469653117
9781469653129
1469653125
9781469653136 (electronic bk.)
1469653133 (electronic bk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Awards
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), Best Subsequent Book, 2020.
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