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Feminist (Im)Mobilities in Fortress(ing) North America
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ABSTRACT
Since the establishment of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) tensions concerning immigration trends and policies, which continued to escalate at the turn of the millennium resulted in revised national security policies in Mexico, Canada, and the United States. These tensions have catalyzed the three governments to rethink their political and economic agendas. While national feminist scholarship in and on these respective countries continue to predominate, since NAFTA, there has been increasing feminist inquiry in a North American regional frame. Less has been done to understand challenges of the hegemonies of nation, region, and empire in this context and to adequately understand the meaning of (im)mobility in people's lives as well as the (im)mobilities of social theories and movements like feminism. Drawing from current feminist scholarship on intimacy and political economy and using three main frameworks: Fortressing Writs/Exclusionary Rights, Mobile Bodies/Immobile Citizenships, and Bordered/Borderland Identities, a handpicked group of established and rising feminist scholars methodically examine how the production of feminist knowledge has occurred in this region. The economic, racial, gender and sexual normativities that have emerged and/or been reconstituted in neoliberal and securitized North America further reveal the depth of regional and global restructuring.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |18 pages
Introduction
part |2 pages
PART I FoRTRessIng WRITs/exclusIonARy RIghTs
chapter 1|18 pages
Codifying Fortress North America: Receding Rights, Relative Sovereignties, and Gendered and Racialized Restructuring under NAFTA
chapter 2|17 pages
(Im)Mobilizing Unskilled Migrant Labor Post-NAFTA: Racialized and Gendered Legal Barriers to the Human Rights of Migrant Mexicans in Canada and the US
part |2 pages
Part II: Mobile Bodies/Immobile Citizenships
chapter 4|21 pages
Neoliberalizing (Re)production
chapter 5|20 pages
Engendering Violence in De/Hyper-nationalized Spaces: Border Militarization, State Territorialization, and Embodied Politics at the US–Mexico Border
chapter 6|18 pages
Securing the State: The Relationship between Anti-Sex Trafficking Legislation and Organizing and the Fortressing of North America
part |2 pages
PART III boRdeRed/boRdeRlAnd IdenTITIes