Abstract:Eva Contreras had been incarcerated at Eloy Detention Center for three months. As the young Venezuelan woman waited for her asylum hearing, she shared the long journey she and her husband made along Mexico’s vertical border and the fugitive strategies she deployed to survive immigrant detention. Eva narrated how she has been smuggled—kidnapped by Venezuelan maras, handled and managed without her consent in the borderlands, and drawn into a contraband, or illicit, touch inside Eloy. The chapter, by relating con… Show more
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