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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 READINGS

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

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

NUTRITION AND POVERTY (en español) (Nutrición y Pobreza) (A World Bank report regarding Mexico) (2008) in pdf Acrobat download

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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