Keywords
neoliberal capitalism, El Salvador, precarity, proletarian feminism
Document Type
Peer-Reviewed Research Article
Abstract
On March 27, 2021, a Salvadoran refugee named Victoria Salazar was brutally killed by police in the Mexican resort town of Tulum, Quintana Roo. In this article, I introduce a “proletarian feminist analysis” to the study of Central American displacement and forced migration to argue that Victoria Salazar’s death is a “social murder.” Although Mexican police murdered Victoria Salazar, I contend that the social degradation and working-class precariousness in El Salvador and Mexico, all shaped by neoliberal capitalist relations of exploitation and afflicting cisgender and trans women in distinctive ways, set the conditions for Ms Salazar’s social murder.
Recommended Citation
Osuna, Steven
(2022)
"The Social Murder of Victoria Salazar: Neoliberal Capitalism and Working Class Precariousness in El Salvador,"
Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis: Vol. 1:
Iss.
3, Article 4.
Available at:
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/emancipations/vol1/iss3/4
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Submitted
April 11, 2022
Published
August 19, 2022