by Elvia Arriola | Dec 9, 2011 | Advocacy and Activism, Further Study, Maquiladoras, NAFTA, Women and Globalization
INITIAL IMPACT: (10 Oct 2011 email from my Tío Juan Guzmán & my response to him) Good morning … It was interesting reading about this latest venture of yours…that is great….I believe everyone ought to be involved in one issue at least once in...
by Elvia Arriola | Sep 21, 2011 | Further Study, Maquiladoras, NAFTA, Resources, Women and Globalization
The Quest for Social Justice in the Border Factories known as “maquiladoras.” In 2000, several years into the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, a lawsuit, or complaint of sorts was filed by workers in Matamoros (Brownsville,TX) against Custom...
by Elvia Arriola | Sep 13, 2011 | Further Study
Synopsis of article by Professor Carmen G. Gonzalez, Seattle University School of Law: An Environmental Justice Critique of Comparative Advantage: Indigenous Peoples, Trade Policy, and the Mexican Neoliberal Economic Reforms, 32 U. Penn. J of Int’l L. 723...
by Elvia Arriola | Aug 29, 2011 | Further Study
Crazy Mexican Border Politics Since September 11, 2001 by Elvia Rosales Arriola State Defiance of Federal Border Control On April 23, 2010 Governor Jan Brewer signed a law passed by the Arizona legislature enabling police officers to demand...
by Elvia Arriola | Aug 26, 2011 | Bibliography, Further Study, Immigration and Human Rights Bibliography, Migrants and Human Rights
THE FEMINIZATION OF MIGRATION: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY (2012) Subtopics: Law and Policy, Political Science, History, Gender and Women’s Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, as well as General Works on Domestic Work, Sex Industry, Health/Reproductive...
by Elvia Arriola | Aug 18, 2011 | Advocacy and Activism, Migrants and Human Rights
Flyer announcement by delegation organizers, Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera (ATCF). Travel is for a three-day weekend beginning with an orientation session the Thursday night before departure on a Friday morning, from Austin, Texas. Click...
