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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