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...
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,...
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...
Another group of students from the NIU College of Law, enrolled in Professor Arriola’s globalization seminar, signed on for a trip to the US-Mexico border to meet working women active in the grassroots organization Comité Fronterizo de Obreras.
Life at the Border by Cynthia N. Edwards (NIU 1st year student in 2006) from the delegation to Reynosa, Tamaulipas, October 13-15, 2006 In October 2006, I participated in a delegation to the U.S.-Mexico border. As part of the 12 person delegation, which was...
DELEGATES VISIT THE HOME OF A MAQUILADORA WORKER LEARNING ABOUT MEXICAN LABOR LAW SOCIAL TIME WITH THE WORKERS TO HEAR THEIR STORIES The educational trip (Fall 2005) involved sending students from Professor Arriola’s seminar, Women, Law and the Global Economy...
