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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 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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