Human Rights along the U.S.-Mexico Border : Gendered Violence and Insecurity /
Much political oratory has been given to safeguarding America's boundary with Mexico, but policies that militarize the border and criminalize immigrants have overshadowed the region's widespread violence against women, the increase in crossing deaths, and lingering poverty that spurs peopl...
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
2009.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Violence at the border: broadening the discourse to include feminism, human security, and deeper democracy / Kathleen Staudt
- Women, migration, and sexual violence: lessons from Mexico's borders / Olivia T. Ruiz Marrujo
- Human rights violations: Central American immigrants at the Northeastern Mexico border / Alberto Martin Alvarez and Ana Fernández Zubieta
- Crime and violence in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands: NAFTA's underground economy as a source of in/security, with comparisons to the EU / Julie A. Murphy Erfani
- In the footsteps of spirits: migrant women's testimonios in a time of heightened border enforcement / Anna Ochoa O'Leary
- Violence against women at the border: unpacking institutions / Kathleen Staudt
- Femicide on the border and new forms of protest: the International Caravan for Justice / Carol Mueller, Michelle Hansen, and Karen Qualtire
- Transnational advocacy networks, international norms, and political change in Mexico: the murdered women of Ciudad Juárez / Olga Aikin Araluce
- Human trafficking and protections for undocumented victims in the United States / David A. Shirk and Alexandra T. Webber.