Women's migration within Mexico and from Mexico to the United
States is increasing; nearly as many women as men are migrating.
This development gives rise to new social negotiations, which have
not been well examined in migration studies until now. This
pathbreaking reader analyzes how economically and politically
displaced migrant women assert agency in everyday life. Scholars
across diverse disciplines interrogate the socioeconomic forces
that propel Mexican women into the migrant stream and shape their
employment options; the changes that these women are making in
homes, families, and communities; and the "structural violence"
that they confront in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands broadly
conceived-all within the economic, social, cultural, and political
interstices of the two countries.This reader includes twenty-three
essays-two of which are translated from the Spanish-that illuminate
women's engagement with diverse social and cultural challenges. One
contributor critiques the statistical fallacy of nativist
discourses within the United States that portray Chicana and
Mexican women's fertility rates as "out of control." Other
contributors explore the relation between sexual violence and
women's migration from rural areas to urban centers within Mexico,
the ways that undocumented migrant communities challenge
conventional notions of citizenship, and young Latinas'
commemorations of the late, internationally renowned singer Selena.
Several essays address workplace intimidation and violence,
harassment and rape by U.S. border patrol agents and maquiladora
managers, sexual violence, and the brutal murders of nearly two
hundred young women near Ciudad Juarez. This rich collection
highlights both the structural inequities faced by Mexican women in
the borderlands and the creative ways they have responded to them.
Contributors. Ernestine Avila, Xochitl Castaneda, Sylvia Chant, Leo
R. Chavez, Cynthia Cranford, Adelaida R. Del Castillo, Sylvanna M.
Falcon, Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez, Maria de la Luz Ibarra, Jonathan
Xavier Inda, Rosa Linda Fregoso, Jennifer S. Hirsch, Pierrette
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Eithne Luibheid, Victoria Malkin, Faranak
Miraftab, Olga Najera-Ramirez, Norma Ojeda de la Pena, Deborah
Paredez, Leslie Salzinger, Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel, Denise A.
Segura, Laura Velasco Ortiz, Melissa W. Wright, Patricia Zavella
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