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Cover -- Contents -- Chapter One. Power and Vulnerability through Indigenous Women's Stories -- Chapter Two. Domestic Departures: Vulnerability in the Settler State -- Chapter Three. Perilous Passages: The Neoliberal Multicriminal Settler State -- Chapter Four. Carceral Containments: Captivity in the Homeland Security State -- Chapter Five. Beyond Detention: Undocumented Dangers and Deportability -- Conclusion. Neoliberal Multicriminalism and the Enduring Settler State -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Introduction: Human rights and Chiapas in the neoliberal era -- Global discourses on the local terrain : grounding human rights in Chiapas -- Neither rights nor humans : the vicissitudes of local appropriation -- Dialogisms, or, on being and becoming indigenous in Nicolás Ruiz -- Gendered intersections : collective and individual rights in indigenous women's experience -- Assuming our own own defense : rights, resistance, and the law in the red de defensores comunitarios -- Improving the paths of resistance : the Juntas Buen Gobierno and rights in their exercise -- Rights in rebellion : rethinking resistance in the neoliberal global order

ABSTRACTSince the 2016 presidential election, there has been a resurgence of openly white supremacist discourse and action in the United States. The public debate following the election often suggested that Trump and his followers represented a backlash against the assumed progress of a multicultural and potentially even postracial society. However, the assumption inherent in this perspective, that white supremacy can be voted out or voted back in, is problematic. In this article, based on ten years of research with Indigenous women migrants from Mexico and Central America, I will apply an analytic of settler colonialism in order to explore how white supremacy is structured into our institutions and everyday social relations. In particular, I will consider the intersection of capitalism and the settler state, and how the changing needs of capitalism shape discourses of race differently over time yet remain fundamentally underwritten by white supremacist assumptions. Examining the shift from neoliberal multiculturalism to what I call neoliberal multicriminalism, I argue that neoliberal multiculturalism, with its accompanying discourses of tolerance and rights, may have reached its limits, and that the resurgence of open white supremacy is a response to the changing needs of white settler capitalist power. [white supremacy, patriarchy, settler colonialism, neoliberalism, migration]

In this article, I consider anthropology's engagement with human rights today. Through the lens of my experience in a case brought before the International Labor Organization by a community in Chiapas, Mexico, I consider the ethical, practical, and epistemological questions that arise in research defined by rights activism. I argue that the critical engagement brought about by activist research is both necessary and productive. Such research can contribute to transforming the discipline by addressing the politics of knowledge production and working to decolonize our research process. Rather than seeking to avoid or resolve the tensions inherent in anthropological research on human rights, activist research draws them to the fore, making them a productive part of the process. Finally, activist research allows us to merge cultural critique with political action to produce knowledge that is empirically grounded, theoretically valuable, and ethically viable.

In the wake of a 2006 change in the party in office for the Canadian government there were routine rearrangements in the House of Common's Standing Committees and Subcommittees. Novel changes came about with the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights and committees associated with security ceasing to be connected to one another. Discourses in the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration were analysed using critical discourse analysis to examine participant roles with regards to power and mystification as evident in the discourse of the invited speakers/witnesses at the meetings on 'Refugee Issues' in the 1st Session of the 39th Parliament. Diversity in conceptualizations of security and how migrants are 'insecure' for Canada were prominent in the discourse. This makes it difficult for justice and human rights to come to fruition both in discourse and reality. Rose's (1999) conceptualization of security is relied upon as a tool of organization to demonstrate the complexity involved in discussions of the same topic that get 'lost in translation' between various perspectives.