Carceral Containments

This chapter examines women’s experience in the United States, particularly in immigration detention. It considers the expansion of immigration into private, for-profit prison industry and outlines the multiple violences and human rights violations that the detention of refugees imply.

Conclusion

This chapter brings the book full circle to the overarching argument that settler capitalist states are based on white supremacy and patriarchy as structuring and enduring logics that will continue to render Indigenous women vulnerable without a profound restructuring of society.

Beyond Detention

This chapter explores women’s experience after and beyond detention, considering the multiple ways they continue to be rendered vulnerable to violence.

Perilous Passages

This chapter explores the journeys women undertake through Central America, Mexico and the United States as they seek to escape violence, and the new forms of violence they are made vulnerable to. Exploring youth gang, cartel, police, military, and immigration officials’ violence, the chapter argues that there is a fundamentally new type of state that is analytically inseparable from the illegality and violence, a “Neoliberal multicriminal” state. It considers the relation of this state to structures of settler capitalism.

Power and Vulnerability through Indigenous Women’s Stories

This chapter explores the concept of settler capitalism, particularly in Latin America, as well as the concepts of structural and intersectional violence. It makes a case for Indigenous women’s stories as a valid form of theory and knowledge production. It also makes a case for a hemispheric Indigenous analytical lens.

Domestic Departures

The chapter explores gender violence Indigenous women experience at home and suggests that, far from being a private matter, it is fundamentally intertwined with state violence.