Much political oratory has been devoted 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 the lingering poverty that spurs people to set out on dangerous northward treks. This book addresses those concerns by focusing on gender-based violence, security, and human rights from the perspective of women who live with both violence and poverty. From the Pacific ...
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Much political oratory has been devoted 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 the lingering poverty that spurs people to set out on dangerous northward treks. This book addresses those concerns by focusing on gender-based violence, security, and human rights from the perspective of women who live with both violence and poverty. From the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico, scholars from both sides of the 2,000-mile border reflect expertise in disciplines ranging from international relations to criminal justice, conveying a more complex picture of the region than that presented in other studies. Initial chapters offer an overview of routine sexual assaults on women migrants, the harassment of Central American immigrants at the hands of authorities and residents, corruption and counterfeiting along the border, and near-death experiences of border crossers. Subsequent chapters then connect analysis with solutions in the form of institutional change, social movement activism, policy reform, and the spread of international norms that respect human rights as well as good governance. These chapters show how all facets of the border situation--globalization, NAFTA, economic inequality, organized crime, political corruption, rampant patriarchy--promote gendered violence and other expressions of hyper-masculinity. They also show that U.S. immigration policy exacerbates the problems of border violence--in marked contrast to the border policies of European countries. By focusing on women's everyday experiences in order to understand human security issues, these contributions offer broad-based alternative approaches and solutions that address everyday violence and inattention to public safety, inequalities, poverty, and human rights. And by presenting a social and democratic international feminist framework to address these issues, they offer the opportunity to transform today's security debate in constructive ways.
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Very good. Ex-library. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 230 p. Contains: Unspecified, Maps. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2009033168 Type of material Book Main title Human rights along the U.S. -Mexico border: gendered violence and insecurity / edited by Kathleen Staudt, Tony Payan, and Z. Anthony Kruszewski. Published/Created Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c2009. Description ix, 230 p. : ill., map; 23 cm. ISBN 9780816528059 (hard cover) 0816528055 (hard cover) 9780816528721 (pbk. ) 0816528721 (pbk. ) LC classification HV6250.4. W65 H85 2009 Variant title Human rights along the United States-Mexico border Related names Staudt, Kathleen A. Payan, Tony, 1967-Kruszewski, Z. Anthony. Contents 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 Ferna?ndez 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 Jua?rez / Olga Aikin Araluce--Human trafficking and protections for undocumented victims in the United States / David A. Shirk and Alexandra T. Webber. LC Subjects Women--Violence against--Mexican-American Border Region. Poor women--Violence against--Mexican-American Border Region. Human rights--Mexican-American Border Region. Crime--Mexican-American Border Region. Violence--Mexican-American Border Region. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-221) and index. Dewey class no. 303.60972/1 Geographic area code n-mx---n-us---Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn319500754
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