Crimigración: un análisis feminista del encarcelamiento de jóvenes mexicanos indocumentados en Estados Unidos de América

The largest system of incarceration for migrants in the world is located in the United States of America. This, combined with the detention and deportation of undocumented immigrant populations, can be understood through the lens of “crimmigration,” in which criminal and immigration laws are hybridized. The aim is to analyze, from feminist epistemologies, the criminalization and incarceration of undocumented Mexican youth. Therefore, a documentary review and semi-structured interviews were conducted with formerly incarcerated Mexican youth. With this, it is argued that crimmigration and, consequently, the confinement of immigrants is organized in terms of gender, race, and class. Furthermore, the resistance to incarceration are presented, based on care and affection that the youth themselves developed to confront confinement. Likewise, this research identifies the connection between the refusal of the immigration control regime and the abolitionist movement against the Prison-Industrial Complex.