Originally published in Southern Cultures, Vol. 28, Number 4, Winter 2022
Published in Southern Cultures (Winter 2022), this article documents how Indigenous Guatemalan women in rural Mississippi built a grassroots community care network in the aftermath of the August 2019 ICE raids, the largest single-state workplace immigration raids in U.S. history. Through a collaboration with the Immigrant Alliance for Justice and Equity (IAJE) and the Mississippi Freedom Writers collective from Dartmouth College, this work situates itself within a broader critique of neoliberalism, arguing that the promotora system represents a moral and collective alternative to exploitative labor systems and punitive immigration enforcement.
