Abandoning the Revolution or Weaving Peace?: South-South Migration, Socialism, and Decolonial Feminist Geopolitics in South America
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-30-2023
Abstract
This article presents a decolonial feminist geopolitics of Venezuelan migration to Colombia, with Venezuelans fleeing the socialist Bolivarian Revolution and then facing discrimination and violence upon settling in capitalist Colombia amid its failing peace process context. Conflicts over migration and nationality permeate our global order of sovereign nation-states, both in north-south migrations and across the global south, while the feminisation and racialisation of migrants divides the subaltern class and facilitates capitalist exploitation. However, this paper elucidates migrants’ inter-national solidarities and grassroots peace struggles. Community organisers along the Colombia-Venezuela border – the women’s empowerment organisation Tejedores de Paz and youth leadership foundation Horizonte de Juventud – unite impoverished internally-displaced Colombians and Venezuelan immigrants to create resistance territories against xenophobia, patriarchy, and poverty. Illustrating the utility of the methodology of decolonial feminist geopolitics, I trace the reconfiguration of the spirit of sociopolitical revolution in South America through migrants’ emergent form of feminist non-state socialism.
Publication Information
Courtheyn, Christopher. (in press). "Abandoning the Revolution or Weaving Peace?: South-South Migration, Socialism, and Decolonial Feminist Geopolitics in South America". Geopolitics. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2023.2217750
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