AUTHOR’S SUMMARY ELVIA R. ARRIOLA, Voices from the Barbed Wires of Despair, Women in the Maquiladoras, Latina Critical Legal Theory and Gender at the U.S. Mexico Border, 49 De Paul L. Rev. 729-815 (2000) (87 pages ) (This Summary – 5 pages) This study uses...
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Srta Extraviada/Young Missing Woman In 2002, filmmaker Lourdes Portillo released her documentary Señorita Extraviada, or Young Missing Woman on the subject of the disappearances of hundreds of young women and girls, many of them workers in the NAFTA factories, who had...
Linking the Global Economy to Violence Against Women: The Case of the Ciudad Juarez Murders (2007) by Elvia Rosales Arriola The “maquiladora murders” was a popular subject for writing and activism by feminists in the first decade of the 21st century, and an...
Why Go on a Delegation? Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera (ATCF) ATCF organizes quarterly delegations to visit maquiladora workers and communities along the Mexico-U.S. border. The Comité Fronterizo de Obrer@s (CFO: Border Committee of Workers) hosts each group’s...
Serial Sexual Femicide in Ciudad Juárez: 1993-2001 Julia Monárrez Fragoso In memory of Guillermina Valdés-Villalba DEBATE FEMENISTA, 13th Edition, Vol. 25, April 2002. We aren’t talking about the final moments of these children and women. We are talking about a long...
