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Book The Maquiladora Reader

Download or read book The Maquiladora Reader written by Rachael Kamel and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 25 contributions which discuss living and working conditions in Mexican export processing zones; the emergence of union activism; and cross-border activities by trade unions to support the rights of workers in maquiladoras.

Book The Maquiladora Reader

Download or read book The Maquiladora Reader written by Rachael Kamel and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 25 contributions which discuss living and working conditions in Mexican export processing zones; the emergence of union activism; and cross-border activities by trade unions to support the rights of workers in maquiladoras.

Book Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora

Download or read book Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora written by Norma Iglesias Prieto and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published originally as La flor mas bella de la maquiladora, this beautifully written book is based on interviews the author conducted with more than fifty Mexican women who work in the assembly plants along the U.S.-Mexico border. A descriptive analytic study conducted in the late 1970s, the book uses compelling testimonials to detail the struggles these women face. The experiences of women in maquiladoras are attracting increasing attention from scholars, especially in the context of ongoing Mexican migration to the country's northern frontier and in light of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This book is among the earliest accounts of the physical and psychological toll exacted from the women who labor in these plants. Iglesias Prieto captures the idioms of these working women so that they emerge as dynamic individuals, young and articulate personalities, inexorably engaged in the daily struggle to change the fundamental conditions of their exploitation.

Book The Maquiladora Survival Guide

Download or read book The Maquiladora Survival Guide written by Michael Grunsten and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reader for individuals working in foreign owned plants in Mexico.

Book The Mexico Reader

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gilbert M. Joseph
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2022-08-29
  • ISBN : 1478022973
  • Pages : 584 pages

Download or read book The Mexico Reader written by Gilbert M. Joseph and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-29 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mexico Reader is a vivid and comprehensive guide to muchos Méxicos—the many varied histories and cultures of Mexico. Unparalleled in scope, it covers pre-Columbian times to the present, from the extraordinary power and influence of the Roman Catholic Church to Mexico’s uneven postrevolutionary modernization, from chronic economic and political instability to its rich cultural heritage. Bringing together over eighty selections that include poetry, folklore, photo essays, songs, political cartoons, memoirs, journalism, and scholarly writing, this volume highlights the voices of everyday Mexicans—indigenous peoples, artists, soldiers, priests, peasants, and workers. It also includes pieces by politicians and foreign diplomats; by literary giants Octavio Paz, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Carlos Fuentes; and by and about revolutionary leaders Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata. This revised and updated edition features new selections that address twenty-first-century developments, including the rise of narcopolitics, the economic and personal costs of the United States’ mass deportation programs, the political activism of indigenous healers and manufacturing workers, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Mexico Reader is an essential resource for travelers, students, and experts alike.

Book The Maquiladora Murders

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judy Long
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-07-09
  • ISBN : 9781977507860
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book The Maquiladora Murders written by Judy Long and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maquiladora Murders is set in the context of a real-life horror that has convulsed the Mexico/Texas borderland for a generation. The tumultuous modernization of the region provides the setting for a young woman's journey from village life to city life. In Juarez Guadalupe finds a wholesale murder of young women that implicates a monstrous conspiracy stretching from the hinterland to Mexico 's capital city. Guadalupe is inspired by the Virgin of Guadalupe, whose name she bears, as a sense of her mission develops. Guadalupe finds dangers and allies in her search for answers as women disappear around her. Colorful and delightful characters-not all of them mortal-- join Guadalupe in her quest. La Llorona, the legendary grieving mother whose children were taken from her, now haunts Juarez -and Guadalupe. Local activists, international journalists and forensic experts press for action. Fearless, Guadalupe takes action, a cloud of female energy gathering around her.

Book Lives on the Line

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  • Author : Miriam Davidson
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2000-09
  • ISBN : 9780816519989
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Lives on the Line written by Miriam Davidson and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The twin cities of Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, for years straddled an indistinct border," but with the maquiladora industry, a crackdown against undocumented immigrants, and drug smuggling, "neither Nogales will ever be the same."--Cover.

Book Anay s Will to Learn

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  • Author : Elaine Hampton
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2013-04-04
  • ISBN : 0292744277
  • Pages : 182 pages

Download or read book Anay s Will to Learn written by Elaine Hampton and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The opening of free trade agreements in the 1980s caused major economic changes in Mexico and the United States. These economic activities spawned dramatic social changes in Mexican society. One young Mexican woman, Anay Palomeque de Carrillo, rode the tumultuous wave of these economic activities from her rural home in tropical southern Mexico to the factories in the harsh desert lands of Ciudad Juárez during the early years of the city’s notorious violence. During her years as an education professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, author Elaine Hampton researched Mexican education in border factory (maquiladora) communities. On one trip across the border into Ciudad Juárez, she met Anay, who became her guide in uncovering the complexities of a factory laborer’s experiences in these turbulent times. Hampton here provides an exploration of education in an era of dramatic social and economic upheaval in rural and urban Mexico. This critical ethnographic case study presents Anay’s experiences in a series of narrative essays addressing the economic, social, and political context of her world. This young Mexican woman leads us through Ciudad Juárez in its most violent years, into women’s experiences in the factories, around family and religious commitments as well as personal illness, and on to her achievement of an education through perseverance and creativity.

Book The Undocumented Everyday

Download or read book The Undocumented Everyday written by Rebecca M. Schreiber and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining how undocumented migrants are using film, video, and other documentary media to challenge surveillance, detention, and deportation As debates over immigration increasingly become flashpoints of political contention in the United States, a variety of advocacy groups, social service organizations, filmmakers, and artists have provided undocumented migrants with the tools and training to document their experiences. In The Undocumented Everyday, Rebecca M. Schreiber examines the significance of self-representation by undocumented Mexican and Central American migrants, arguing that by centering their own subjectivity and presence through their use of documentary media, these migrants are effectively challenging intensified regimes of state surveillance and liberal strategies that emphasize visibility as a form of empowerment and inclusion. Schreiber explores documentation as both an aesthetic practice based on the visual conventions of social realism and a state-administered means of identification and control. As Schreiber shows, by visualizing new ways of belonging not necessarily defined by citizenship, these migrants are remaking documentary media, combining formal visual strategies with those of amateur photography and performative elements to create a mixed-genre aesthetic. In doing so, they make political claims and create new forms of protection for migrant communities experiencing increased surveillance, detention, and deportation.

Book Altered States

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  • Author : Valerie Sperling
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2009-05-25
  • ISBN : 1139478184
  • Pages : 389 pages

Download or read book Altered States written by Valerie Sperling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-25 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is globalization good for democracy? Or has it made our governing institutions less accountable to citizens? Located at the intersection of international relations and comparative politics, this book explores the effects of globalization on national governance. Under what circumstances do the transnational forces that embody globalization encourage or discourage political accountability? Among the transnational forces discussed in the book are the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, multinational corporations, the United Nations, private military contractors, peacekeepers, the European Court of Human Rights, and several transnational social movements. Using in-depth case studies of situations in which these transnational institutions interact with national governments and citizens, Valerie Sperling traces the impact of economic, political, military, judicial, and civic globalization on state accountability and investigates the degree to which transnational institutions are themselves responsible to the people whose lives they alter.

Book The Reader s Companion to U S  Women s History

Download or read book The Reader s Companion to U S Women s History written by Wilma Mankiller and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers issues and events in women's history that were previously unpublished, misplaced, or forgotten, and provides new perspectives on each event.

Book Reading Across Borders

Download or read book Reading Across Borders written by S. Stone-Mediatore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of postcolonial and feminist critiques of 'experience' and 'identity', how can feminists engage stories of marginalized peoples' experience in the development of feminist theories and modes of activism that take account of the diversity of women's situations? How can feminists use the powerful tools of storytelling in ways that do not essentialize or objectify marginalized women? Shari Stone-Mediatore brings together the theoretical perspectives of Hannah Arendt and postcolonial theory to develop a 'post-positivist' account of narrative which can form the basis for a progressive feminist politics.

Book Desert Capitalism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathryn Kopinak
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780816515981
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Desert Capitalism written by Kathryn Kopinak and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progress does not come easily to the maquiladoras. These foreign-owned assembly plants have moved southward from the border into Sonora and Chihuahua, giving rise to the concept of "desert capitalism." However, the plants have not necessarily brought about the improvements in the lives of workers that had been so hopefully expected. Sociologist Kathryn Kopinak here examines the maquiladora industry in Nogales, Sonora, and explores various questions concerning how it is changing with NAFTA and other attempts at regional integration. Focusing on the auto-parts industry, Kopinak observes that few maquiladoras have taken steps toward more sophisticated technology and innovative labor practices anticipated by the "second wave" hypothesis of modernization. She argues instead that the apparent advances have not benefitted the overwhelming majority of Mexican employees by increasing their wages or involving them in the workplace. Women workers in particular are segmented at the bottom of the job ladder. Kopinak provides information on facilities in both Nogales and the town of Imuris to offer a balanced perspective on border and inland maquiladoras. Desert Capitalism draws on interviews with workers about their daily lives in both their home and adopted communities and on interviews with Mexican and U.S. plant managers. Community surveys, newspaper advertisements, and government records are other important sources of data. It also reviews and synthesizes literature published only in Spanish and utilizes creative quantitative statistical techniques. The book thus marks a significant study of people's lives that seeks to contribute to the understanding of ongoing continental economic reorganization, and it holds important lessons for scholars of economics, anthropology, political science, history, sociology, women's studies, and regional planning.

Book The Mexican American Experience

Download or read book The Mexican American Experience written by Matt S. Meier and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexican Americans are rapidly becoming the largest minority in the United States, playing a vital role in the culture of the American Southwest and beyond. This A-to-Z guide offers comprehensive coverage of the Mexican American experience. Entries range from figures such as Corky Gonzales, Joan Baez, and Nancy Lopez to general entries on bilingual education, assimilation, border culture, and southwestern agriculture. Court cases, politics, and events such as the Delano Grape Strike all receive full coverage, while the definitions and significance of terms such as coyote and Tejano are provided in shorter entries. Taking a historical approach, this book's topics date back to the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, a radical turning point for Mexican Americans, as they lost their lands and found themselves thrust into an alien social and legal system. The entries trace Mexican Americans' experience as a small, conquered minority, their growing influence in the 20th century, and the essential roles their culture plays in the borderlands, or the American Southwest, in the 21st century.

Book Reading Economic Geography

Download or read book Reading Economic Geography written by Trevor J. Barnes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader introduces students to examples of the most important research in the field of economic geography. Brings together the most important research contributions to economic geography. Editorial commentary makes the material accessible for students. The editors are highly respected in their field.

Book Urban Theory and the Urban Experience

Download or read book Urban Theory and the Urban Experience written by Simon Parker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Theory and the Urban Experience brings together classic and contemporary approaches to urban research in order to reveal the intellectual origins of urban studies and the often unacknowledged debt that empirical and theoretical perspectives on the city owe one another. From the foundations of modern urban theory in the work of Weber, Simmel, Benjamin and Lefebbvre to the writings of contemporary urban theorists such as David Harvey and Manuel Castells and the Los Angeles school of urbanism, Urban Theory and the Urban Experience traces the key developments in the idea of the city over more than a century. Individual chapters explore investigative studies of the great metropolis from Charles Booth to the contemporary urban research of William J. Wilson, along with alternative approaches to the industrial city, ranging from the Garden City Movement to ‘the new urbanism’. The volume also considers the impact of new information and communication technologies, and the growing trend towards disaggregated urban networks, all of which raise important questions about viability and physical and social identity of the conventional townscape. Urban Theory and the Urban Experience concludes with a rallying cry for a more holistic and integrated approach to the urban question in theory and in practice if the rich potent. For the benefit of students and tutors, frequent question points encourage exploration of key themes, and annotated further readings provide follow-up sources for the issues raised in each chapter. The book will be of interest to students, scholars, practitioners and all those who wish to learn more about why the urban has become the dominant social, economic and cultural form of the twenty-first century

Book Reading Between the Lines

Download or read book Reading Between the Lines written by Peter C. Patrikis and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a collection of new and stimulating approaches to reading in a foreign language. The contributors to the volume all place reading at the heart of learning a foreign language and entering a foreign culture, and they consider issues and methods of language education from such diverse perspectives as cognitive theory, applied linguistics, technology as hermeneutic, history, literary theory, and cross-cultural analysis. The contributors—teachers of French, German, Greek, Japanese, and Spanish—call for language teachers and theorists to refocus on the importance of reading skills. Emphasizing the process of reading as analyzing and understanding another culture, they document various practical methods, including the use of computer technology for enhancing language learning and fostering cross-cultural understanding.