Frontera madre(hood): brown mothers challenging oppression and transborder violence at the U.S.-Mexico border

Introduction / Cynthia Bejarano and Maria Cristina Morales

Survival in the face of violence. A letter acknowledging Antigone mothers, our desert mothers / Lucha Castro ; Testimonio : a motherist activist story of migration, community building, and femicide / Paula Flores Bonilla ; Ellos matan? : visual autoethnography of motherhood in the face of the militarization at the border / Ma. Eugenia Hernández Sánchez ; Frontera madre(hood) and survival tactics of urban life / Marisol Rodríguez Sosa – Testimonio : la frontera : experiencing border violence through different lenses / Edith Treviño Espinosa ; "Yo no tengo derecho a enfermarme" : conceptions of madre(hood) in women maquiladora workers / Cirila Quintero Ramírez ; Testimonio. "Mi nieto tenía metas.... nos tenemos que reunir todos" : a grandmother's fight for justice through the border patrol victims network / Taide Elena

Confronting caging, migration, and deportation. Testimonio : women, family, border enforcement, and humanitarian work on the banks of the Rio Grande in Matamoros / Bertha A. Bermúdez Tapia ; Testimonio : the sidewalk school / Felicia Rangel-Samponaro ; A different kind of motherhood for liberation : fictive kin, advocacy, and mothering adult migrants in immigration detention / Margaret Brown Vega ; Madres de una frontera : a bilateral experience / Coda Rayo-Garza and Shamma Rayo-Gutierrez ; Testimonio : mothering in a bicultural border context / Sandra Gutiérrez ; Knitting hope : conversations with migrant women in Tijuana shelters / Macrina Cárdenas Montaño and Olga Odgers-Ortiz ; Testimonio : my motherhood testimonio in the service and defense of children and youth at the border / Leticia López Manzano ; Testimonio : colores united : mothers offering sanctuary and dignity in southern New Mexico / Ariana Saludares – Asserting rights and calling out hegemony and oppression through a praxis of frontera madre(hood). Testimonio : I AM his mother : challenging traditional paradigms of Latina mothering in the Paso del Norte region / Claudia Yolanda Casillas ; On fronteriza madre(hood)s : una plática entre mujeres académicas / Judith Flores Carmona and Brenda Rubio ; Ma'ala Meecha, watch over me : a Hiaki interpretation of frontera mother˖hood / Marisa Elena Duarte ; Indigenous women and motherhood within a border context : the case of the Nan davi in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua / Mariela Vásquez Tobon ; Border walls and barriers to care : Latina mothers and access to care during the COVID-19 pandemic / Marisa S. Torres, Victoria M. Telles and Elva M. Arredondo ; "Ya vámonos que va a ver mucha fila en el Puente" : a mother-daughter's reflection on crossing borders using a transfronteriza intersectional consciousness / Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla and Silvia Quintanilla Moreno ; Testimonio : changing the narrative on how our Mexican immigrant communities should be served along the border / Hilda Villegas

Afterword. Frontera Madre(hood) and the path of conocimiento / Irene Lara.