SKETCHES OF CENTRAL AMERICAN WOMEN SEEKING ASYLUM AT THE US-MEXICO BORDER

This article focuses on the narratives provided by Central American immigrant women in detention centers, and the stories that women narrate through their interviews in the asylum application, within a framework of critical analysis to neoliberalism. These representations, inspired by the voices of women seeking asylum, not only disqualify the message of "invasion" of the south displaced to the north, with the consequent need to "control" and defend themselves against the attack, but also unmask the extractivist gear of the neoliberal apparatus. The narratives force a critical analysis that shapes what is proposed as Emergency Anthropology, which, more than a formal research project, responds to an attempt to verbalize an anthropological praxis that demands urgent intervention in contexts of violence, and that points to an activist epistemology, of solidarity, centered on the value of the community.