This dissertation examines the processes by which Central American women and men face unprecedented forms of violence and exploitation as they migrate through Mexico. Central Americans are regularly subject to abuse, extortion, rape, kidnapping, dismemberment and death as multiple actors profit off of their bodies, labor and lives. In turn, the political economy of violence and security along the migrant journey permeates into local Mexican communities, creating new tensions and social ruptures. Going beyond a simple accounting of abuse, I engage ethnography as a lens through which to understand the social effects of historical and contemporary processes of war, displacement, economic restructuring and social dislocation as people move through local spaces. Throughout the journey, the logics of migration and violence rework social relations based on race, gender and nationality where migrants are both victims of and agents within the often de-humanizing processes of human mobility. I use a lens of gender in particular to understand the ways larger processes impact the intimate spaces of people's lives and the intimate labors they perform as parents, migrants, partners, laborers and activists. I also examine the ways violence is not simply destructive, but also generates new possibilities for solidarity and political action through social movements around humanitarianism and migrant rights. In particular, I examine the emergence of a movement of Catholic-based migrant shelters and a transnational feminist movement of mothers and families of disappeared migrants.

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Submitted by Liliane Ferreira (ljuvencia30@gmail.com) on 2018-03-14T13:28:34Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Paula Nogueira Pires Batista - 2017.pdf: 2586333 bytes, checksum: 80a916e5fada76011243ccec6178eada (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2018-03-15T11:00:10Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Paula Nogueira Pires Batista - 2017.pdf: 2586333 bytes, checksum: 80a916e5fada76011243ccec6178eada (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-15T11:00:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Paula Nogueira Pires Batista - 2017.pdf: 2586333 bytes, checksum: 80a916e5fada76011243ccec6178eada (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-09-18 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This work aims to think about the potentialities of transnational feminist political coalitions based on ethnographic experience that focused on Slutwalk of the city of Goiânia / GO ("Marcha das Vadias" - MdV / GO) in the years 2014, 2015 and 2016. For this, I interpret that this March would be a contemporary "young" feminist expression. The analysis proposes intersectionality, taking into account the different social markers of difference that have emerged in the field, such as gender, "race" / color, class, sexuality and age / "generation". Thus, three major axes of analysis are thought: 1) Transnational flows of feminisms; 2) Intersectionality and ethnic-racial issues; 3) Generational differences and different feminisms in play. As an analytical possibility, I propose the idea of ​​intersectional feminist whiteness, thought from the racialization of white social experience on the March. / Este trabalho se propõe a pensar potencialidades de coalizões políticas feministas transnacionais a partir de experiência etnográfica realizada com enfoque na Marcha das Vadias da cidade de Goiânia/GO (MdV/GO) nos anos de 2014, 2015 e 2016. Para isto, parto da interpretação de que esta Marcha seria uma expressão “jovem” feminista contemporânea. As análises têm como proposta a interseccionalidade, ao levar em consideração os diferentes marcadores sociais da diferença que surgiram em campo, a exemplo de gênero, “raça”/cor, classe, sexualidade e idade/“geração”. Sendo assim, três grandes eixos de análise são pensados: 1) Fluxos transnacionais dos feminismos; 2) Interseccionalidade e questões étnico-raciais; 3) Diferenças geracionais e diferentes feminismos em jogo. Como possibilidade analítica, proponho a ideia de branquitude interseccional feminista, pensada a partir da racialização da experiência social branca em Marcha.

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