MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN AND GIRLS: Femicide, Feminicide and Genocide in the Canadian Context
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Indigenous women and girls; genocide; femicide/feminicideAbstract
Despite highlighting the parallels between feminicides in Ciudad Juarez and missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) in Canada, Indigenous activists and scholars do not use the concept of feminicide to frame this violence. Indigenous feminist scholars use the term genocide, while, in their transnational advocacy, Indigenous activists frame this violence as intersectional discrimination and a human rights violation. These approaches make colonialism central to MMIWG.
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