Abstract
Abstract Violence and inequalities suffered by Central American women force their migration. Once the process has begun, they are exposed to greater violence because they are migrants, poor, indigenous or mestizo, women and, sometimes, minors. The journey is the space in which Central Americans, particularly women, are exposed to violence perpetrated by criminal organizations. Orderly and regular mobility would protect them from the dangers to which they are exposed; to this end, migration governance is needed. This analysis works with intersectionality as a theoretical approach and the methodology used was qualitative, based on interviews and a bibliographic review.
Highlights
Latin America is the region with the highest number of women murdered worldwide, either by the actions of organized crime, domestic abuse or other forms of Human Rights violations
Homicide rates reflect this violence: Latin America account for 37% of global homicides and 8% of the world’s population (UNODC 2019), other forms of violence are high, especially in the Central American region, since 288 robberies and 10 rapes occur per hour; the latter, represent a problem that receives little attention: Guatemala has a rape rate of more than 76 per 100 thousand inhabitants, El Salvador of 39.2 and Honduras of 33.3 (Resdal 2016)
4 Intersectionality incorporates to gender categories such as age, literacy, social class, ethnical origin and experiences related to violence, as we argue below
Summary
Latin America is the region with the highest number of women murdered worldwide, either by the actions of organized crime, domestic abuse or other forms of Human Rights violations. Contextualizing the structural factors that motivate migration, that is, “structural intersectionality,” is crucial to understand the exposure of Central American migrant women to domination, violence perpetrated in transit by actors who exercise oppression, and consent to subordination.
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