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Lynn Stephen examines the writing of Elena Poniatowska, showing how it shaped Mexican political discourse and provides a unique way of understanding contemporary Mexican history, politics, and culture.

Testimony: human rights, and social movements -- Histories and movements : antecedents to the social movement of 2006 -- The emergence of the APPO and the 2006 Oaxaca social movement -- Testimony and human rights violations in Oaxaca -- Community and indigenous radio in Oaxaca : testimony and participatory democracy -- The women's takeover of media in Oaxaca : gendered rights "to speak" and "to be heard" -- The economics and politics of conflict : perspectives from Oaxacan artisans, merchants, and business owners -- In indigenous activism : the triqui autonomous municipality, APPO Juxtlahuaca, and transborder organizing in APPO-L.A. -- From barricades to autonomy and art : youth organizing in Oaxaca. -- Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca.

Approaches to transborder lives -- Transborder communities in political and historical context : views from Oaxaca -- Mexicans in California and Oregon -- Transborder labor lives : harvesting, housecleaning, gardening, and childcare -- Surveillance and invisibility in the lives of indigenous farmworkers in Oregon -- Women's transborder lives : gender relations in work and families -- Navigating the borders of racial and ethnic hierarchies -- Grassroots organizing in transborder lives -- Transborder ethnic identity construction in life and on the net : e-mail and webpage construction and use -- Conclusions -- Epilogue: Notes on collaborative research

Introduction -- Ethnicity and class in the changing lives of Zapotec women -- Kinship, gender, and economic globalization -- Six women's stories : Julia, Cristina, Angela, Alicia, Imelda, and Isabel -- Setting the scene : the Zapotecs of Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca -- Contested histories : women, men, and the relations of production in Teotitlán, 1920-1950s -- Weaving as heritage : folk art, aesthetics, and the commercialization of Zapotec textiles -- From contract to co-op : gender, commercialization, and neoliberalism in Teotitlán -- Changes in the civil-religious hierarchy and their impact on women -- Fiesta : the gendered dynamics of ritual participation -- Challenging political culture : women's changing political participation in Teotitlán -- After words: On speaking and being heard.

This essay reviews the following works:
Women's Place in the Andes: Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology. By Florence E. Babb. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. Pp. x + 304. $34.95 paper. ISBN: 9780520298170.
Más allá de la reparación: Protagonismo de mujeres mayas en las secuelas del daño genocida. By Alison Crosby and Brinton Lykes. Guatemala City: Cholsamaj, 2019. Pp. 335. Q 155. paper.
Writing Terror on the Bodies of Women: Media Coverage of Violence against Women in Guatemala. By Sarah England. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018. Pp. v + 434. $144.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781498530798.
The Force of Witness: Contra Feminicide. By Rosa-Linda Fregoso. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. Pp. x + 238. $25.95 paper. ISBN: 9781478019817.
Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA. By Nadia Y. Kim. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. Pp. xii + 384. $28.00 paper. ISBN: 9781503628175.
Vernacular Sovereignties: Indigenous Women Challenging World Politics. By Manuela Lavinas Picq. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2018. Pp. xviii + 240. $35.00 paper. ISBN: 9780816540198.
Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America. Edited by Rachel Sieder, Karina Ansolabehere, and Tatiana Alfonso. New York: Routledge, 2019. Pp. xviii + 494. $52.95 paper. ISBN: 9781032092461.
Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State. By Shannon Speed. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Pp. 176. $27.95 paper. ISBN: 9781469653129.

AbstractThis article focuses on how to use ethnography and theory to disrupt binaries between "state" and "non‐state" actors and violence and "private" and "public" actors and violence. I also touch on expanded use of the political opinion basis for asylum in relation to women resisting violence and immigrant rights activists who are undocumented.

Analysis of U.S. immigration, border defense, and national security policies and their impact on individuals, families, and communities from Mexico and Central America who have migrated or fled to the United States as refugees since the mid-1980s suggests that through immigration programs such as Prevention through Deterrence, the United States has crafted a set of policies that creates "preemptive suspects"—categories of people from Central America and Mexico that may be systematically excluded as dangerous, criminal, undeserving, and less valuable than U.S. citizens.Un análisis de las políticas de inmigración, defensa fronteriza y seguridad nacional y su impacto en individuos, familias y comunidades de México y Centroamérica que residen en los Estados Unidos como inmigrantes o refugiados desde mediados de la década de 1980 sugiere que los Estados Unidos ha creado, a través de programas migratorios como la Prevención por Disuasión, un conjunto de políticas que generan "sospechosos preventivos," es decir, categorías de personas de América Central y México que pueden ser sistemáticamente excluidas como peligrosas, criminales, indignas y de menos valor que los ciudadanos estadunidenses.

One of the key areas of discussion in Gaspar Rivera-Salgados paper and in Michael Kearneys scholarship is the need to rework concepts of citizenship in the context of transborder migration, political participation, and identity formation. Here I want to explore and unfold some of the ideas about citizenship that Rivera-Salgado proposes and do some thinking about the application of different concepts of citizenship for anthropologists who do research with indigenous transborder communities. This discussion is guided by Michael Kearney's demonstration of how to be a transborder anthropologist and a binational citizen at multiple levels. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright holder.]