The Desire of the Laws and the Laws of Desire: LGBT+ Prisoners in the Latin American Confinement Labyrinth
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In this article I analyze different models of management of sexual and gender diversity in prison in the context of the emergence of specific rights for LGBT+ prisoners in Brazil and Mexico. My proposal is based on a multi-situated ethnography in the largest metropolitan regions of Latin America: São Paulo and Ciudad de México. I realized participant observation in male prisons, interviews with survivors from incarceration, activists and state agents, as well as broad bibliographic research. After reviewing and analyzing previous regimes of management of gender and sexual differences in confinement institutions, I argue that the recent creation of new subjects of rights (such as LGBT+ prisoners) can reinforce structural contradictions of Latin American criminal justice systems.
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