Morality is tangled up with mobility in the province's responses to Indigenous women who hitchhike. This paper will identify how hitchhiking, framed as contentious mobility, supports the construction of missing and murdered Indigenous women as willing, available and blame-worthy victims. The frequent description of missing and murdered Indigenous women as hitchhikers or drifters fosters a sense that " choosing " a bad mode of mobility alone is the reason that these women disappear. Mobility of Indigenous women, including hitchhiking is deeply gendered and racialized. Hitchhiking as a mode of contentious mobility is categorically named as " bad mobility " and is frequently explained away as risky behaviour. In Northwestern British Columbia hitchhiking is particularly common among Indigenous women. The province remains focussed on controlling Indigenous mobility and constructing forms of contentious mobility, such as hitchhiking, as bad or risky. Whether too much or the wrong kind, constraining Indigenous mobility is a preoccupation of the province of British Columbia.
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