2025/05/02 by Talia Mills · 1 voice
Social Sciences · Psychology · #Migration, Refugees, and Integration #Migration and Labor Dynamics #Migration, Health and Trauma
paper · doi:10.1080/01419870.2025.2494243
openalex publication_date 2025/05/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/15
This paper looks at the gendered infrastructural violence that migrant women experience along their journey through Mexico. It does so by bringing work on the gendered infrastructural violence of cities and the infrastructural violence of borders together to show how this form of violence moves with migrant women transnationally and shapes their journeys. Looking at this transnational flow of violence reveals that impunity is central to gendered infrastructural violence, resulting in experiences of gendered transnational impunity. Empirically, the paper uncovers three salient experiences of such violence that migrant women face in Mexico: reporting experiences of gender-based violence in transit to authorities; applying for asylum in Mexico; and, seeking international humanitarian assistance. As a result of these findings, I argue international protection measures must acknowledge the indirect forms of gendered violence, including infrastructural violence and impunity, that influence migrant women’s experiences of displacement as they seek transnational justice and protection.