  In scenarios where the dark matter interacts differently with protons and
neutrons (isospin-violating dark matter), the interpretation of the
experimental limits on the dark matter spin-independent cross section may be
significantly modified. On the one hand, the direct detection constraints are
shifted depending on the target nucleus, possibly changing the hierarchy among
different experiments. On the other hand, the relative strength between the
bounds from neutrino detectors and those from direct detection experiments is
altered, allowing the former to be more competitive. In this paper, the status
of isospin-violating dark matter is assessed in the light of recent data, and
the prospects for its detection in the near future are analyzed. We find, for
example, that there are regions in the parameter space where IceCube currently
provides the most stringent limits on the spin-independent cross section, or
others where the expected sensitivity of DEAP-3600 is well above the LUX
exclusion limit. Our results highlight the complementarity among different
targets in direct detection experiments, and between direct detection and
neutrino searches in the quest for a dark matter signal.
