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Health and Safety
Why a Yoga Project for Maquiladora Workers?
“What if Women on the Border could take stress- relief training, like yoga and meditation exercises to the women in the maquiladoras? Surely, this is a fundable project. . . read more
OTHER RESOURCES
GLOBALIZATION OF THE ECONOMY AND ITS IMPACT ON HEALTH
Elvia Arriola, The Delicate Balance Between Life and Death (October 2007)
Elvia Arriola, "Voices
from the Barbed Wires of Despair: Women in the Maquiladoras, Latina Critical
Legal Theory and Gender at the U.S.-Mexico Border", (pdf) 49 DE PAUL LAW REVIEW 729-815 (2000).
Summary of above article.
Elvia Arriola, "Of
Woman Born: Courage and Strength to Survive in the Maquiladoras of Reynosa
and Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas," reprinted from Frontera Norte-Sur,
April 2001
en
español
Diana
Washington Valdez ,"U.N.
Investigates Deaths of Juarez Women," El
Paso Times, May 19,
2001
Julia
Monárrez Fragoso,
"Feminicidio
sexual serial
en
Ciudad Juárez\: 1993-2001," (pdf)
en español
Debbie Nathan,
"Missing
the Story," (pdf)
The Texas Observer, August 30, 2002
en
español
More on the Ciudad Juarez Murders
Books
Vandana Shiva, Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
(2000)
Diana Washington-Valdez, Women Harvest: A Mexican Safari/ Cosecha de
Mujeres: Safari en el Desierto (2005)
Maria del S. Alcala Iberri, Las Muertas de Juarez (Dead women in Juarez)
Films
Señorita Extraviada by Lourdes Portillo (documentary on the Maquiladora
Murders)
http://www.lourdesportillo.com/senoritaextraviada/index.html
Other Resources
NUTRICION Y POBREZA (español) (NUTRITION AND POVERTY (click here for PDF article)) (A WORLD BANK REPORT-2008) Click here to download Acrobat application
ALIVIO DE LA POBREZA y FONDOS DE INVERSION SOCIAL (español) (World Bank Discussion Paper 1995.)
The Maquiladora Murders, Or Who is Killing the Women of Juarez?
(Conference Nov. 2004 produced multiple resources, books, and links)
http://www.chavez.ucla.edu/maqui_murders/
Robt. Bracamontes, Note on Maquiladora Murders and NAFTA
Xispas: Chicano Culture, Art and Politics
http://www.xispas.com/archives/maquila/maquila.htm
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