Incarcerated stories : indigenous women migrants and violence in the settler-capitalist state

Speed, Shannon 1964- (author.).

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"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781469653129 (paperback)
Physical Description: print
163 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Power and vulnerability through Indigenous women's stories -- Domestic departures -- Perilous passages -- Carceral containments -- Beyond detention -- Conclusion.