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Every year hundreds of thousands of Central American migrants from mainly Honduras, Guatemala and... more Every year hundreds of thousands of Central American migrants from mainly Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador embark on a journey through Mexican territory with the hopes of a better future in the United States-estimations suggest that up to thirty percent are women. Transnational migration is due to heightened violence in Central America on the rise. Although earlier research about women´s particular mobility is scarce, reports and studies maintain that women to a larger extent suffer violence and insecurity as compared to their male counterparts. The objective with this thesis is to explore current border policy and practices in relation to women´s experiences en route. Motivated by mobile ethnography and the need for thorough research in contexts of conflict I follow migrants in transit and explore the various localities pertaining to the migrant route. Aided by theories about transnational border control, its human consequences and gender norms, I show how migrant women´s journeys are funneled to a context of impunity, insecurity and violence and conclude that gender norms and expectations permeate these spatialities. Women are deemed as out of place, have few options but using sex as a strategy for survival, and rape further functions as a regulating mechanism of border control. Violence against women is in this manner highly facilitated, thus serving as yet another feature to the genderspecific policing of borders in this frontier between the Global South and North.
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This article focuses on girlhood in one of the youth subcultures of rural Sweden, EPA greasers. T... more This article focuses on girlhood in one of the youth subcultures of rural Sweden, EPA greasers. The EPA, a car that Swedes aged 15 and older can legally drive, is at the centre of EPA culture. In this uniquely and previously male Swedish youth greaser culture, there has been a recent increase in the number of Swedish girls driving EPAs. Previous research has shown how EPA culture and EPA girlhood are shaped through distancing from hegemonic urban and middle-class norms and ideology. In this article, we seek to develop an understanding of EPA culture, specifically the ways in which it has been adopted by girls. Starting out from their online performances, we will explore how place, femininity and resistance intersect. The findings demonstrate how EPA girls use a playful way of troubling norms in their online performances, understood here as space and outlet to resist and mess around with dominant discourses and prejudice. This can also be understood as a way of talking back to mascul...
Every year hundreds of thousands of Central American migrants from mainly Honduras, Guatemala and... more Every year hundreds of thousands of Central American migrants from mainly Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador embark on a journey through Mexican territory with the hopes of a better future in the United States-estimations suggest that up to thirty percent are women. Transnational migration is due to heightened violence in Central America on the rise. Although earlier research about women´s particular mobility is scarce, reports and studies maintain that women to a larger extent suffer violence and insecurity as compared to their male counterparts. The objective with this thesis is to explore current border policy and practices in relation to women´s experiences en route. Motivated by mobile ethnography and the need for thorough research in contexts of conflict I follow migrants in transit and explore the various localities pertaining to the migrant route. Aided by theories about transnational border control, its human consequences and gender norms, I show how migrant women´s journeys are funneled to a context of impunity, insecurity and violence and conclude that gender norms and expectations permeate these spatialities. Women are deemed as out of place, have few options but using sex as a strategy for survival, and rape further functions as a regulating mechanism of border control. Violence against women is in this manner highly facilitated, thus serving as yet another feature to the genderspecific policing of borders in this frontier between the Global South and North.
YOUNG
This article focuses on girlhood in one of the youth subcultures of rural Sweden, EPA greasers. T... more This article focuses on girlhood in one of the youth subcultures of rural Sweden, EPA greasers. The EPA, a car that Swedes aged 15 and older can legally drive, is at the centre of EPA culture. In this uniquely and previously male Swedish youth greaser culture, there has been a recent increase in the number of Swedish girls driving EPAs. Previous research has shown how EPA culture and EPA girlhood are shaped through distancing from hegemonic urban and middle-class norms and ideology. In this article, we seek to develop an understanding of EPA culture, specifically the ways in which it has been adopted by girls. Starting out from their online performances, we will explore how place, femininity and resistance intersect. The findings demonstrate how EPA girls use a playful way of troubling norms in their online performances, understood here as space and outlet to resist and mess around with dominant discourses and prejudice. This can also be understood as a way of talking back to mascul...