Garifunizando Ambas Américas: Hemispheric Entanglements of Blackness/Indigeneity/AfroLatinidad

Oro, Paul Joseph López

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“…Migration is shaped by a process whereby immigrants first learn, ignore, resist, or accept socially constructed categories and popular conventions of race (Rodriguez, 2000). For Black, Indigenous, and/or mestizx Central Americans, racialization processes include identifying, rejecting, resisting, ignoring, or accepting the “Hispanic/Latino” category with which they were unfamiliar in their home countries (López Oro, 2020), even as they negotiate complex experiences of belonging and exclusion across multiple national contexts (Dyrness and Sepúlveda, 2020). This process is further marred by ambiguities for Central Americans because they are a relatively misunderstood population in the United States (Abrego and Cárcamo, 2021) and when they express dominant phenotypic and physical characteristics associated with Latinxs, they are often mistaken for Mexican.…”

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“…Although about half of all Salvadorans, Guatemalans, and Hondurans are undocumented or have unstable legal status, together, Central Americans make up roughly only 16% of the total undocumented population (Warren, 2020: 34). They are also often overlooked in scholarship and misrepresented in mainstream media (Abrego and Cárcamo, 2021; Abrego and Villalpando, 2021), making it difficult to learn about their national cultures and histories—especially when Black and Indigenous (Batz, 2014; López Oro, 2020). This institutional and cultural invisibility shapes how undocumented Central American youth negotiate their identities in different political and social contexts.…”

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“Complexities of belonging: Compounded foreignness and racial cover among undocumented Central American youth”

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Pérez

Abrego³

2022

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Legally excluded from the state through their status, undocumented Central Americans must also navigate belonging in social movement spaces that do not center their cultural experiences. Drawing on 25 interviews with Guatemalans, Hondurans, and Salvadorans from multiple studies, we explore Central Americans’ agency and identity development in immigrant rights organizations and in daily life. We employ the term, compounded foreignness, to capture the layered practices of exclusion they face for being unauthorized and for not fitting into dominant conceptions of Latinidad. We demonstrate that undocumented Central Americans develop various strategies of belonging. For example, shared experiences of racialized illegality can lead to solidarity amongst undocumented immigrant youth across racial, ethnic, and national lines. When they are being negatively targeted, however, they use racialized illegality as racial cover–that is, a way to divert attention away from their illegality in relation to the state, as well as social and cultural foreignness from Latinidad. This means that some choose to pass as Mexican by adopting Mexican cultural norms and colloquial speech, while others take pride in their cultural difference as Central Americans. In other instances, they seek spaces and people who share their cultural identity. Importantly, while racial cover may work as a strategy for navigating these different forms of marginalization, racial cover can also cover up and make invisible Central American identities and needs. Together, these experiences reveal a level of agency and nuance needed to deepen our understanding of undocumented immigrants, Central Americans, and belonging in the United States.

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“Complexities of belonging: Compounded foreignness and racial cover among undocumented Central American youth”

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Pérez

Abrego³

2022

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Special issue: Advancing Latina/o/x criminologies

León,

Peguero,

Dinzey-Flores

2023

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We use the term Latina/o/x to account for the diversity of individual identities and political locations. When referencing collectives, racial-ethnic categories, or non-human nouns, the term Latino is used for readability. The term Latinx appears when directly referencing cited materials. 2 The concept of habeas corpus quite literally reflects both the logic and process of the state seizing control of the body.

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Garifunizando Ambas Américas: Hemispheric Entanglements of Blackness/Indigeneity/AfroLatinidad

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“Complexities of belonging: Compounded foreignness and racial cover among undocumented Central American youth”

“Complexities of belonging: Compounded foreignness and racial cover among undocumented Central American youth”

Special issue: Advancing Latina/o/x criminologies

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