ABSTRACT:The intertwined theoretical contributions of this article are: 1) how to interpret the lives of indigenous women asylum seekers in relation to structural vulnerability in western Oaxaca, Mexico, and in the asylum seeking process in the US, and 2) why expert witnessing should be considered as a form of ethnographic engagement. My discussion entails a detailed analysis of the cases of two female Triqui asylum seekers and their connections with local, regional, and larger state and economic structures and narratives of militarized gender violence. Finally, I discuss the ways that ethnographies as expert objects and expert witness reports harness both evidence and narrative through an interpretive framework.

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性别暴力和墨西哥土著寻求庇护者：作为民族志参与的专家见证

摘要：本文的理论贡献是：1）如何解释与墨西哥瓦哈卡州西部和美国寻求庇护过程中结构脆弱性相关的土著女性寻求庇护者的生活，以及 2）为什么要进行专家证人应该被视为一种民族志参与的形式。我的讨论需要详细分析两名女性特里基寻求庇护者的案例及其与地方、区域和更大的国家和经济结构的联系以及军事化性别暴力的叙述。最后，我讨论了作为专家对象和专家证人报告的民族志通过解释框架利用证据和叙述的方式。