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Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader (Latin America Otherwise)
Women’s migration within Mexico and from Mexico to the United States is increasing; nearly as many women as men are migrating This development gives rise to new social negotiations, which have not been well examined in migration studies until now. This pathbreaking reader analyzes how economically and politically displaced migrant women assert agency in everyday life. Scholars across diverse disciplines interrogate the socioeconomic forces that propel Mexican women into the migrant stream and shape their employment options; the changes that these women are making in homes, families, and communities; and the “structural violence” that they confront in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands broadly conceived—all within the economic, social, cultural, and political interstices of the two countries. This reader includes twenty-three essays—two of which are translated from the Spanish—that illuminate women’s engagement with diverse social and cultural challenges. One contributor critiques the statistical fallacy of nativist discourses within the United States that portray Chicana and Mexican women’s fertility rates as “out of control.” Other contributors explore the relation between sexual violence and women’s migration from rural areas to urban centers within Mexico, the ways that undocumented migrant communities challenge conventional notions of citizenship, and young Latinas’ commemorations of the late, internationally renowned singer Selena. Several essays address workplace intimidation and violence, harassment and rape by U.S. border patrol agents and maquiladora managers, sexual violence, and the brutal murders of nearly two hundred young women near Ciudad Juárez. This rich collection highlights both the structural inequities faced by Mexican women in the borderlands and the creative ways they have responded to them. Contributors. Ernestine Avila, Xóchitl Castañeda, Sylvia Chant, Leo R. Chavez, Cynthia Cranford, Adelaida R. Del Castillo, Sylvanna M. Falcón, Gloria González-López, Maria de la Luz Ibarra, Jonathan Xavier Inda, Rosa Linda Fregoso, Jennifer S. Hirsch, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Eithne Luibheid, Victoria Malkin, Faranak Miraftab, Olga Nájera-Ramírez, Norma Ojeda de la Peña, Deborah Paredez, Leslie Salzinger, Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel, Denise A. Segura, Laura Velasco Ortiz, Melissa W. Wright, Patricia Zavella.
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Xochitl and the Flowers/Xochitl, la Nina de las flores
Though Xochitl and her family have put down new roots in the United States, Xochitl still misses the garden and flower shop they left behind in El Salvador But when Xochitl's family decides to start a nursery and sell their flowers on the street, the sense of community they find makes them feel connected to their neighbors, and their decision to start a nursery and flower shop in their backyard helps the Flores family finally feels at home in its adopted country. .
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Human Rights in the Maya Region: Global Politics, Cultural Contentions, and Moral Engagements
In recent years Latin American indigenous groups have regularly deployed the discourse of human rights to legitimate their positions and pursue their goals. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the Maya region of Chiapas and Guatemala, where in the last two decades indigenous social movements have been engaged in ongoing negotiations with the state, and the presence of multinational actors has brought human rights to increased prominence. In this volume, scholars and activists examine the role of human rights in the ways that states relate to their populations, analyze conceptualizations and appropriations of human rights by Mayans in specific localities, and explore the relationship between the individualist and “universal” tenets of Western-derived human rights concepts and various Mayan cultural understandings and political subjectivities. The collection includes a reflection on the effects of truth-finding and documenting particular human rights abuses, a look at how Catholic social teaching validates the human rights claims advanced by indigenous members of a diocese in Chiapas, and several analyses of the limitations of human rights frameworks. A Mayan intellectual seeks to bring Mayan culture into dialogue with western feminist notions of women’s rights, while another contributor critiques the translation of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights into Tzeltal, an indigenous language in Chiapas. Taken together, the essays reveal a broad array of rights-related practices and interpretations among the Mayan population, demonstrating that global-local-state interactions are complex and diverse even within a geographically limited area. So too are the goals of indigenous groups, which vary from social reconstruction and healing following years of violence to the creation of an indigenous autonomy that challenges the tenets of neoliberalism. Contributors: Robert M. Carmack, Stener Ekern, Christine Kovic, Xóchitl Leyva Solano, Julián López García, Irma Otzoy, Pedro Pitarch, Álvaro Reyes, Victoria Sanford, Rachel Sieder, Shannon Speed, Rodolfo Stavenhagen, David Stoll, Richard Ashby Wilson.
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"El tiempo de Planck".(Reseña de teatro): An article from: Proceso
This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on April 24, 2005. The length of the article is 738 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: "El tiempo de Planck".(Reseña de teatro) Author: Estela Leñero Franco Publication:Proceso (Magazine/Journal) Date: April 24, 2005 Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. Issue: 1486 Page: 87(2) Article Type: Reseña de teatro Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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Frente común contra la "ley espuria".(leyes sobre los derechos indigenas, México)(TT: Common front against spurious law.)(TA: indian rights law, Mexico)(Entrevista): An article from: Proceso
This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on July 15, 2001. The length of the article is 1560 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Frente común contra la "ley espuria".(leyes sobre los derechos indigenas, México)(TT: Common front against spurious law.)(TA: indian rights law, Mexico)(Entrevista) Author: Rodolfo Montes Publication:Proceso (Magazine/Journal) Date: July 15, 2001 Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. Page: 22 Article Type: Entrevista Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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An air quality modeling study comparing two possible sites for the new international airport for Mexico City. (Technical Paper).: An article from: Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association
This digital document is an article from Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, published by Air and Waste Management Association on March 1, 2003. The length of the article is 6564 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: An air quality modeling study comparing two possible sites for the new international airport for Mexico City. (Technical Paper). Author: Aron D. Jazcilevich Publication:Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (Refereed) Date: March 1, 2003 Publisher: Air and Waste Management Association Volume: 53 Issue: 3 Page: 366(13) Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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