Buch
Monografie
Women and migration in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands : a reader
Verfasst von:
Segura, Denise A.
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Durham, NC [u. a.]:
Duke University Press
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2007
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595 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Segura, Denise A.; Zavella, Patricia |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Latin America otherwise
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| Jahr: | 2007 |
| Maße: | 24cm |
| ISBN: | 0822341182 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Womens migration within Mexico and from Mexico to the United States is increasing; nearly as many women as men are migrating. This reader analyzes how economically and politically displaced migrant women assert agency in everyday life. The contributors 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. The reader includes twenty-three essays that illuminate womens 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 womens fertility rates as "out of control". Other contributors explore the relation between sexual violence and womens 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 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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