Why do women and feminized people flee Central America? What do they find when they reach the United States?

María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo is professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University. She is the author of over 30 articles on revolution, subaltern politics, indigenous peoples, racial formation, migration, and Latin American and Latino cultural studies, as well as several books, including the multiple-prize-wining Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States (Duke University Press, 2016).