by Elvia Arriola | May 20, 2011 | Delegations, Further Study, Maquiladoras, NAFTA, Women and Globalization
In its 10th year, Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera is taking another delegation to MEXICO, Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, May 20-22, 2011 to meet maquiladora workers who share their stories about life under NAFTA. Coordinator Judy Rosenberg has this to say about the...
by Elvia Arriola | Dec 1, 2010 | Further Study, Migrants and Human Rights
Mexican Border Politics Since September 11, 2001 by Elvia Rosales Arriola Executive Director, WOB, INC. State Defiance of Federal Border Control On April 23, 2010 the Governor of Arizona signed a law passed by the legislature that allowed police officers to...
by Elvia Arriola | Jan 10, 2009 | Advocacy and Activism, Further Study, NAFTA
Connecting the Dots: NAFTA, Free Trade and the Rise of Illegal Immigration ELVIA R. ARRIOLA, EX. DIR. Women on the Border (2009) Why do contemporary proponents of immigration reform ignore the connections between increased migration of people looking for work from...
by Elvia Arriola | Dec 1, 2007 | Advocacy and Activism, Further Study, Maquiladoras, NAFTA
The delicate balance between life and death: a child with hemophilia, a single mother and maquiladora worker in Ciudad Acuña. by Elvia R. Arriola, J.D., M.A., Executive Director, Women on the Border, Inc. The Place: Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila,...
by Elvia Arriola | Sep 1, 2007 | Maquiladoras, NAFTA
STRESS RELIEF TRAINING FOR MAQUILADORA WORKERS Everyone who knows anything about the conditions for working women in the NAFTA factories at the border knows that on the whole workers’ bodies are treated like cogs in the wheel of production. It is a shame, but...
