ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0102-869X und Dürr, Eveline
(2024):
Dirty Borders, Clean Women. A Feminist Decolonial Perspective on Mexican-American Women's Watchfulness and Security.
In: Conflict and Society. Advances in Research, Vol. 10: pp. 178-192
Abstract
How do Mexican-American women in the US-Mexico borderlands respond to insecurity relating to multiple forms of discrimination? The present article compares the experiences of women of different class and ethnic backgrounds to analyze their gendered watchfulness in response to the racialized and classed anti-immigrant vigilance of privileged Anglo-Americans. We argue that, in a context of ongoing coloniality, maintaining an exploitable racialized and gendered sub-worker class requires conjuring the illusion of the border as a necessary security feature. Mexican-American women's watchfulness strategies, including professionalism, beauty practices, and artistic performances, instead makes visible the ways in which the border as the margin of the state actively produces insecurity and violence. Viewing security from the margins of the margins allows us to expand and decolonize previous understandings.
Item Type: | Journal article |
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Keywords: | California; discrimination; domestic workers; gender; Latinas; US-Mexico border |
Faculties: | Cultural Studies > Department of Ancient and Modern Cultures > Ethnology |
Subjects: | 100 Philosophy and Psychology > 170 Ethics 300 Social sciences > 300 Social sciences, sociology and anthropology 300 Social sciences > 360 Social problems and social services 300 Social sciences > 370 Education 300 Social sciences > 380 Commerce, communications and transportation 300 Social sciences > 390 Customs, etiquette and folklore |
Item ID: | 123162 |
Date Deposited: | 17. Dec 2024 11:29 |
Last Modified: | 17. Dec 2024 11:29 |