Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State

by Shannon Speed

Book Overview

Indigenous women migrants from Central America and Mexico face harrowing experiences of violence before, during, and after their migration to the United States, like all asylum seekers. But as Shannon Speed argues, the circumstances for Indigenous women are especially devastating, given their disproportionate vulnerability to neoliberal economic and political policies and practices in Latin America and the United States, including policing, detention,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469653125
• ISBN13: 9781469653129
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"