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 Juárez. 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, Xóchitl Castañeda, Sylvia Chant,
Leo R. Chavez, Cynthia Cranford, Adelaida R. Del Castillo, Sylvanna
M. Falcón, Gloria González-López, Maria de la Luz Ibarra,
Jonathan Xavier Inda, Rosa Linda Fregoso, Jennifer S. Hirsch,
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Eithne Luibheid, Victoria Malkin,
Faranak Miraftab, Olga Nájera-Ramírez, Norma Ojeda de la Peña,
Deborah Paredez, Leslie Salzinger, Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel,
Denise A. Segura, Laura Velasco Ortiz, Melissa W. Wright, Patricia
Zavella
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