Migration and Gendered and Racialized Violence in El Salvador's Carceral Peacemaking
Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada
Date: October 22, 2024
Time: 6 PM
Address: Global Education Center, Room 1005
Security-focused approaches to peacemaking in El Salvador emphasize incarceration, policing, and militarization. These approaches clash with the realities of gendered and racialized state violence in the country. Today, El Salvador touts near-zero daily homicides and the incarceration of nearly 76,000 alleged gang members - yet femicides persist. In her talk, Dr. Velásquez Estrada highlights the demands of women relatives of gang members for anti-carceral intersectional justice in peacemaking efforts.
The talk is free and open to the public. Dr. Velásquez Estrada is Associate Professor of Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is currently a National Humanities Center fellow working on her first book, Intersectional Justice: Violence and the Notion of Negative Peace in Post-Accords El Salvador.
