Moving, waiting, searching across borders: Gendered geographies of violence, disappearance and contestation in southern Mexico

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dc.contributor.advisorHyndman, Jennifer
dc.contributor.authorBiorklund Belliveau, Linn Maria Gunilla
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-07T11:03:34Z
dc.date.available2024-11-07T11:03:34Z
dc.date.copyright2024-06-19
dc.date.issued2024-11-07
dc.date.updated2024-11-07T11:03:32Z
dc.degree.disciplineGeography
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractWomen displaced by violence from Central America are the protagonists of this dissertation. Their intimate stories and acts of survival and care are foregrounded as they move, wait and search in social spaces in southern Mexico. They are mobilized to reconceptualize mainstream academic, political and humanitarian thinking about bordering practices as integral parts of states’ tactics to control people’s movement only. The dissertation delves into migrant and body-territory epistemologies of everyday politics, arts-based contestations and performative acts, revealing and making present the bodies, spatialities, and knowledges that populate a geopolitically manufactured border and migration “crisis” in southern Mexico. The research explores bordering practices at the scale of their everyday implementation on the ground, theorizing how borders and bordering as a violent state-driven apparatus operate, how it is experienced differently, whom it impacts, and how it is negotiated across space and time. The research is situated at the intersection of political geography, critical border studies, refugee studies and transnational feminist approaches. The study and grounded analysis originate from feminist ethnographic and participatory action research with migrant women, feminist and women’s groups, collectives searching for the disappeared and others accompanying border-crossers in 2022-23. The methods applied include life history narratives, in-depth semi-structured interviews, workshops, and the accompaniment of people moving, waiting and searching along migratory routes. This dissertation contributes to debates on bordering practices, gender violence, migrant disappearances, and care, making four unique contributions to the literature. First, the methodological approach fosters novel narratives about borders and the acts of people crossing them despite fears. Second, the research reveals a gendered and intimate geopolitical analysis that highlights women’s experiences and survival strategies and considers their exclusion to move quickly across borders that shape and are shaped by state practices. Third, the research re-conceptualizes the outcomes of bordering practices, exposing the protagonism and spaces of care while underlining the experience of waiting in borderlands, all of which are frequently overlooked and undocumented. Finally, the research reads disappearances as violence towards (feminized) migrant bodies and territories and probes subsequent performative searches by friends and family that defy the salient maternalist and state-centric discourses.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/42411
dc.languageen
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dc.subjectGeography
dc.subjectGender studies
dc.subjectLatin American studies
dc.subject.keywordsBorders
dc.subject.keywordsBordering practices
dc.subject.keywordsGender
dc.subject.keywordsMoving
dc.subject.keywordsWaiting
dc.subject.keywordsSearching
dc.subject.keywordsViolence
dc.subject.keywordsGendered violence
dc.subject.keywordsDisappearance
dc.subject.keywordsContestation
dc.subject.keywordsPolitical geography
dc.subject.keywordsGendered geographies
dc.subject.keywordsFeminist geopolitics
dc.subject.keywordsIntimate geopolitics
dc.subject.keywordsCounter-geopolitics
dc.subject.keywordsAffective geographies
dc.subject.keywordsGeographies of making
dc.subject.keywordsTransnational feminism
dc.subject.keywordsCritical border studies
dc.subject.keywordsRefugee studies
dc.subject.keywordsCommunitarian feminisms
dc.subject.keywordsMigratory routes
dc.subject.keywordsBorderlands
dc.subject.keywordsTransnational
dc.subject.keywordsMigrant disappearances
dc.subject.keywordsDisplacement
dc.subject.keywordsMigration
dc.subject.keywordsMigrants
dc.subject.keywordsDisplaced people
dc.subject.keywordsBorder-crossers
dc.subject.keywordsPeople on the move
dc.subject.keywordsWomen
dc.subject.keywordsFeminized bodies
dc.subject.keywordsMothers
dc.subject.keywordsExclusion
dc.subject.keywordsVias
dc.subject.keywordsTrains
dc.subject.keywordsInfrastructure
dc.subject.keywordsTren Maya
dc.subject.keywordsla Bestia
dc.subject.keywordsPa’l Norte
dc.subject.keywordsCaravan
dc.subject.keywordsMigration governance
dc.subject.keywordsMigration business
dc.subject.keywordsExternalization
dc.subject.keywordsMigration policies
dc.subject.keywordsSlow harm
dc.subject.keywordsTrauma
dc.subject.keywordsHarm
dc.subject.keywordsInvisibilized
dc.subject.keywordsAbsence
dc.subject.keywordsFeminicide
dc.subject.keywordsFemicide
dc.subject.keywordsFeminicidio
dc.subject.keywordsFeminization of waiting
dc.subject.keywordsArbitrary detention
dc.subject.keywordsDiscrimination
dc.subject.keywordsDiscriminatory
dc.subject.keywordsHumanitarianism
dc.subject.keywordsEveryday politics
dc.subject.keywordsOrdinary
dc.subject.keywordsGrounded analysis
dc.subject.keywordsMemos
dc.subject.keywordsRefuge
dc.subject.keywordsRefugee protection
dc.subject.keywordsAccompaniment
dc.subject.keywordsAccompany
dc.subject.keywordsSurvival strategies
dc.subject.keywordsMourning
dc.subject.keywordsGrief
dc.subject.keywordsGrievance
dc.subject.keywordsProtagonism
dc.subject.keywordsProtagonist
dc.subject.keywordsPerformative acts
dc.subject.keywordsPerformative searches
dc.subject.keywordsBrujas
dc.subject.keywordsCare
dc.subject.keywordsCare networks
dc.subject.keywordsCollective self-care
dc.subject.keywordsBuen trato
dc.subject.keywordsSearch collectives
dc.subject.keywordsAssembly
dc.subject.keywordsActivism
dc.subject.keywordsSolidarity
dc.subject.keywordsMadre luchadora
dc.subject.keywordsSin miedo
dc.subject.keywordsLife history narratives
dc.subject.keywordsEthnography
dc.subject.keywordsIn-depth semi-structured interviews
dc.subject.keywordsSemi-structured interviews
dc.subject.keywordsMigrant epistemologies
dc.subject.keywordsFeminist epistemologies
dc.subject.keywordsCuerpo territorio
dc.subject.keywordsBody-territory
dc.subject.keywordsTalleres de saberes
dc.subject.keywordsDiálogos de saberes
dc.subject.keywordsDialogues of knowledges
dc.subject.keywordsAcuerpar
dc.subject.keywordsAcuerpamiento
dc.subject.keywordsEmbodiment
dc.subject.keywordsLived experiences
dc.subject.keywordsArt
dc.subject.keywordsArt-based contestations
dc.subject.keywordsBody mapping
dc.subject.keywordsCreative methods
dc.subject.keywordsIntersectional
dc.subject.keywordsFreedom
dc.subject.keywordsUndocumented
dc.subject.keywordsCentral America
dc.subject.keywordsSouthern Mexico
dc.subject.keywordsGulf route
dc.subject.keywordsMigrant shelters
dc.subject.keywordsiminal spaces
dc.subject.keywordsAcross space and time
dc.subject.keywordsGenerations
dc.subject.keywordsIntergenerational
dc.subject.keywordsMemory
dc.subject.keywordsMemory politics
dc.subject.keywordsRemembering
dc.subject.keywordsCommemorating
dc.subject.keywordsMemorialization
dc.subject.keywordsJustice
dc.titleMoving, waiting, searching across borders: Gendered geographies of violence, disappearance and contestation in southern Mexico
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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