Incarcerated Stories

Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State

Shannon Speed

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781469653129, 9781469653112
• eBook ISBN: 9781469653136
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: History

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, and human trafficking. Speed dubs this vulnerability “neoliberal multicriminalism” and identifies its relation to settler structures of Indigenous dispossession and elimination. Using innovative ethnographic practices to record and recount stories from Indigenous women in U.S. detention, Speed demonstrates that these women’s vulnerability to individual and state violence is not rooted in a failure to exercise agency. Rather, it is a structural condition, created and reinforced by settler colonialism, which consistently deploys racial and gender ideologies to manage the ongoing business of occupation and capitalist exploitation.

With sensitive narration and sophisticated analysis, this book reveals the human consequences of state policy and practices throughout the Americas and adds vital new context for understanding the circumstances of migrants seeking asylum in the United States.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures
• 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
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index