Abstract

In the United States, Central American Indigenous women who seek asylum are officially classified as Latinas or Hispanic. The erasure and consequent invisibility of Indigenous identity not only causes assimilation but also jeopardizes Central American Indigenous women’s procedural rights. Using a transnational feminist lens combined with a Critical Latinx Indigeneities framework, and drawing on fieldwork research, I address the complex relationships of migrants whose identities are intertwined with geography, different states, and racial representations, while I claim that the invisibility of Indigenous women from Abya Yala who cross borders responds to the white settler colonial project.

摘要

在美国，寻求庇护的中美洲土著妇女被正式归类为拉丁裔或西班牙裔。土著身份的消除和随之而来的隐形不仅导致同化，而且危害中美洲土著妇女的程序权利。使用跨国女权主义视角结合批判拉丁裔土著框架，并利用实地调查研究，我解决了身份与地理、不同州和种族表征交织在一起的移民的复杂关系，同时我声称来自土著妇女的隐形跨越国界的 Abya Yala 回应白人定居者的殖民计划。