Maria Amelia Viteri, Iréri Ceja, Cristina Yépez Arroyo

Gender and Embodied Geographies in Latin American Borders (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Analyzing the structural problems that create inequality and enable gendered violence in Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina, this book offer a critique of the securitization of borders and the criminalization of human mobility, and propose alternatives to reduce violence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000540512
• Artikelnr.: 63502832

Autorenporträt

María Amelia Viteri, Ph.D., holds an affiliation as a Research Professor at the Department of Anthropology at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, and as a Research Associate with the Department of Anthropology at University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Desbordes: Translating Racial, Ethnic, Sexual and Gender Identities across the Americas (2014), also published in Spanish (2020). Her work has critically addressed borders and inequality as mutually constitutive with issues around gender, sexuality, racism, belonging and migrant status in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Iréri Ceja is a Ph.D. candidate in Social Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, National Museum, Brazil. She is the co-author of the books Migración (CLACSO UAM, 2021) and Corpografías: género y fronteras en América Latina (2017). She is a fellow at the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT, Mexico). She has been awarded the distinguished Wadsworth International Fellowship from the Wenner Gren Foundation (USA). Her areas of research are migration and forced displacement, the role of the State, violence and humanitarianism.

Cristina Yépez Arroyo is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at McGill University, Canada. She is the co-author of the book Corpografías: Gender and Borders in Latin America (2017). Her work focuses on the crossroads between gender, human mobility, detention and deportation. She has worked as an independent consultant and researcher for various projects related to gender and sexualities, human mobility and prevention of violence both in continental Ecuador and in the Galapagos Islands.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Introduction 1. The link between gender and the global border
system 2. Human mobility: between organized crime, border security and
criminalization 3. Femicide and feminicide: body geographies 4. Legal and
illegal markets and the multiple forms of exploitation 5. Breaking
dichotomies: Links in the mechanisms of illegal markets in Latin America 6.
Representations in the Latin American press: images, text, the body and
social class 7. General conclusions 8. Recommendations Annexes