Geographies of indigeneity: Indigenous migrant women’s organizing and translocal politics of place

Abstract

Proposing a Critical Latinx Indigeneities framework to understand Latin American Indigenous migration and the possible relationships and responsibilities arriving to new Indigenous territories entails, the article analyzes how mobility is creating translocal Indigenous social worlds and transregional ways of being by exploring how socio-spatial relations are being reorganized in relation to indigeneity, gender, and migration. Based on long-term collaborative research with the Frente Indigena de Organizaciones Binacionales (FIOB), this article examines translocal community formation and political organizing among the Latin American Indigenous diaspora in Los Angeles. It explores the geographies of indigeneity produced through the production of sacred geographies, mobile circuits of labor, and spatial projects created by women’s collective organizing and the emergence of Oaxacan Indigenous culinary and musical landscapes.