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Paper short abstract:

This paper addresses contemporary Black migration through Latin America as atemporal, future-charted, and in response to anticipated societal and ideological shifts that coalesce to situate critical climate and economic migration in the African diaspora.

Paper long abstract:

This paper blends theoretical interventions made in Black geographic thought, public policy critique, archival

research, speculative fiction, and ethnographic research to situate the recognition of the African

Captive Maternal as an intrinsic variable toward undoing the linear and temperate finality of

western modernity. Increased migration from the African continent to the Americas has been linked to the pinging devastations of ecological crisis via capitalist exploitation (Rodney 1972, Ahuja 2021, Walia 2022) . This shift goes undermined as migrants from the African continent and racialized as Black are restricted from the access provided by

migration management labels like asylum seeker and refugee. To unravel and complicate the

nuances of the ability of folks to migrate, looking at African women mobilities in the Americas

situates how there are consistent ways of relating and being in the Diaspora that can counter the

colonial effects of capitalist extraction. Contextualized through the theoretical contributions on the mobility of the African Diaspora through the Americas via the text Changó, el Gran Puta, a seminal text on the movement and history of members of the African Diaspora, and the writings of Sylvia Wynter, Katherine McKittrick, Malcolm Ferdinand, I tie the the ability, pattern and pace of Black mobility through the Americas as evident of decolonial response and renewal toward addressing and resolving colonial extractivist ruins. I argue that the African diaspora cultures in Latin America open a space where women can bring specific knowledge that contributes to developing inclusive lifeways that protect and sustain Black life.