Journal Article: Líderes Campesinas Nepantla Strategies and Grassroots Organizing at the Intersection of Gender and Globalization

Based on a collaborative ethnography with Líderes Campesinas, a state-wide farmworker women’s organization in California, this essay explores how activists have created multi-issued organizing strategies grounded in family structures and a communitybased social world. Building on Gloria Anzaldúa’s theory of nepantla, it illustrates how campesina organizers create sources of empowerment from their binational life experiences and new forms of gendered grassroots leadership that navigate the overlapping hybrid hegemonies produced by U.S., Mexican, and migrant relations of power. The author argues that immigrant women’s organizing challenges the racialized and gendered forms of structural violence exacerbated by neoliberal globalization and serves as an unrecognized source of transnational feminist theorizing