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 | Jun 23, 2011 | Further Study, Maquiladoras, NAFTA, WOB Archival, Women and Globalization, Women and Globalization Bibliography
OF WOMAN BORN: COURAGE & STRENGTH TO SURVIVE IN THE MAQUILADORAS OF REYNOSA AND RIO BRAVO, TAMAULIPAS by Elvia Rosales Arriola As 27-year old María Elena García Sierra pulled off her white sock to show me the places on her feet where she suffered a recurring...
by Elvia Arriola | Jun 15, 2011 | Delegations, Maquiladoras, NAFTA
REFLECTION OF PAMELA BROUKER DELEGATION TO THE MEXICAN BORDER, MARCH 12-14, 2010 (REYNOSA, TAMAULIPAS –next to McAllen, Texas). My name is Pamela Marie Brouker. I enjoy poetry, nature, art, film and travel. Journaling, writing, drawing and taking pictures are...
by Elvia Arriola | Jun 15, 2011 | Maquiladoras, NAFTA
Dear All, This is a personal report of the recent delegation to the border, which in many ways was a satisfying and successful trip because of the strength of the Austin delegates and because the CFO managed their part pretty much without Julia’s participation....
by Elvia Arriola | Jun 15, 2011 | Further Study, Maquiladoras, Migrants and Human Rights, NAFTA, Women and Globalization
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...
