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Women and Globalization
Exploitation in global factories has led women workers to fight for fair wages and empower themselves through fair trade networks.
Reimagining the Border
With social critique and humor artists and activists reimagine human relationships along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Women on the Border offers resources for the struggle to uphold the human rights of migrants and the undocumented.
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Women on the Border was founded in 2001 to support the empowerment of women working in the NAFTA factories (maquiladoras) at the U.S.-Mexico border.
In recent years, as U.S. policy has become more hostile than ever to migrants, workers, and people of color, Women on the Border has sought to promote scholarship and activism calling for freedom, justice and human dignity.
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Prof Arriola’s globalization seminar description (2004-2015)
SCHOLARSHIP SEMINAR: WOMEN, LAW AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY INSTRUCTOR: Elvia R. Arriola This is a legal scholarship seminar. Students are introduced to the concepts of globalization of the economy and the arguments for and against free trade, regulation of trade, and...
Delegate reflection, Cristina Murray
CHRISTINA MURREY SERVED AS PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER FOR THIS DELEGATION.
Ni Una Mas – Resolutions at UCLA Maquiladora Murders Conference (2003)
Resolutions of the Conference on the Murders of Women in Ciudad Juárez Produced at Los Angeles, California, November 2, 2003 1. We declare that the excessive number of kidnappings, tortures, and murders of girls and women in Ciudad Juárez and in the state of...
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Chicago immigration court violated due process for minors with removal orders, lawmakers say
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U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and immigration advocates sounded an alarm Wednesday over what they described as systemic due process violations at Chicago's Downtown immigration court.
Trump Has Found a New Way to Sabotage the Asylum Process
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Personnel trained to streamline the system have been suddenly reassigned to tend to administration priorities that can best be described as “spectral.”