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...
by Elvia Arriola | Jul 1, 2007 | Advocacy and Activism, Further Study, Maquiladoras
Just Breathe: Recovery for the Body of the Maquiladora Worker Elvia Rosales Arriola, Executive Director WOMEN ON THE BORDER “What if Women on the Border could take stress- relief training, like yoga and meditation exercises to the women in the...
by Elvia Arriola | Dec 1, 2006 | Delegations, Further Study, Maquiladoras, NAFTA, Women and Globalization
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.
by Elvia Arriola | Oct 16, 2006 | Delegations, Further Study, Maquiladoras, NAFTA, Women and Globalization
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...
