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Economic Life of Mexican Beach Vendors: Acapulco, Puerto Vallarta,
and Cabo San Lucas is based on interviews with 82 men and 84 women
who vend their wares on beaches in three Mexican tourist centers.
Assuming that some people may actively choose self-employment in
the informal or semi-informal economy, the employment and
educational aspirations of the vendors and their levels of
satisfaction with their work are explored. Most of the vendors had
other family members who were also vendors, and 75 (45.2 percent)
had 5 or more family members who vended, most usually on Mexican
beaches. The vendors are aware of the forces of globalization
(though they do not express these forces in those words), as
revealed by their responses to questions as to how the current
world economic recession has affected them. The beach vendors live
in essentially segregated neighborhoods that can be considered
apartheid-like, far from the tourist zones. Most of the vendors or
their parents are rural-to-urban migrants and cross ethnic,
linguistic, and economic borders as they migrate to and work in
what have been called transnational social spaces. Of the vendors
interviewed, 82 (49.4 percent) speak an indigenous language, and of
these, 60 (73.2 percent) speak Nahuatl. The majority are from the
state of Guerrero, but there were also Zapotec-speakers from
Oaxaca. Both indigenous and non-indigenous women take part in beach
vending. They are often wives, daughters, or sisters of male beach
vendors, and they may be single, married, living in free union, or
widowed. Their income is often of central importance to the
household economy. This monograph aims to bring their stories to
tourists and to scholars and students of tourism development and
/or the informal or semi-informal economy in Mexican tourist
centers.
While animal suffering and abuse have taken place throughout
history, the alienation of humanity from nature caused by the
development of capitalism - by the logic of capital and its system
of generalized commodity production - accelerated and increased the
depredations in scope and scale. The capitalist commodification of
animals is extensive. It includes, but is not limited to: livestock
production in concentrated animal feeding operations leather and
fur production the ivory trade in which tusks are used for
'traditional medicines; or carved into decorative objects
entertainment such as in zoos, marine parks, and circuses
laboratory experimentation to test medicines, beauty products,
pesticides, and other chemicals the pursuit of trophy hunting,
sometimes on canned farms and sometimes in the wild bioengineering
of livestock and of animals used in laboratories The contributors
to this special issue of Research in Political Economy provide
insightful analyses that address the historical transformations in
the material conditions and ideological conceptions of nonhuman
animals, alienated speciesism, the larger ecological crisis that is
undermining the conditions of life for all species, and the
capitalist commodification of animals that results in widespread
suffering, death, and profits. This book is a must-read not only
for political economists, but also for researchers interested in
animal studies, environmentalism, and sustainability.
In these poems Tamar Diana Wilson has created indellible portraits
of women, the challenges women of the world face and how they
overcome them.
These are people the author came to know - in Mexico, Costa Rica
and in port cities of the Far East where she travelled while
working for the Norwegian Merchant Marine.
Susan Bright, poet, author of House of the Mother, Breathing Under
Water, Next to the Last Word and The Layers of Our Seeing
Some From Zacatecas is the story of the migration and adaptation of
an extended family of undocumented immigrants from that Mexican
State to the west side of Los Angeles, and how some of them
received amnesty after the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act
and some did not. The book looks at the daily lives and
interactions of a group of brothers, their wives, and their
cousins. It looks both at the triumphs and the tragedies that some
migrant workers face during their journey to the north.
Creative non-fiction or fiction, Tales from Colonia Popular seeks
to describe the lives of people the author met in a squatter
settlement in Mexicali, where she lived from 1988 to 1994. They are
meant to depict the struggles of the poor in the face of seemingly
overwhelming odds. They tell the stories of women who live in the
colonia, including a woman who received Special Agricultural
Workers' amnesty for working in the fields in the Imperial Valley
and Salinas, a woman who was the colonia's president, and a woman
who works in the maquiladora plants. They also tell stories of men
who live in the colonia, including a former garbage picker, a
drywaller who longs to give his family more than their income can
provide, and a young man who was a coyote's helper when he was a
child.
from "Only Chiapas? (1995)," a poem by the author
I have seen the best minds of five generations destroyed by
poverty
struggling naked moaning sobbing howling in despair . . .
Who dragged themselves through dusty streets at dawn searched for
a
way to survive laborers for others . . .
Who sowed hoed cut harvested tended sheep cattle
horses goats burros on haciendas from age seven or eight . . .
Who after 16 years of civil strife . . .
Who then joined their urban cousins some to live on lonely
brickyards
no electricity no fans no refrigerators no running water. . .
Some to invade unused lands to form squatter settlements
shanty towns colonias paracaidistas colonias perdidas
colonias populares to build shacks of tarpaulin scrapwood
cardboard crushed aluminum cans trashed by Budweiser and Cola
Cola
drinkers to tap the holes against the rain . . .
Despite women's presence in migration streams since the
mid-nineteenth century, research on Mexican women's migration has a
significantly shorter history than that which focuses on Mexican
men. In this contemporary anthropological study, Tamar Diana Wilson
couples an analytical migratory network analysis with an intimate
ethnography and oral history to explore the characteristics,
development, and dynamics of migration networks for Mexican women.
Centering on the story of doAAa Consuelo, a woman Wilson met in a
Mexicali squatter settlement in 1988, as well as on the stories of
her two daughters in the United States, this study examines the
vital role that women's networks play, both within Mexico and
transnationally, not only in assisting other women to migrate, but
in providing support for male family members as well.
Following a summary of the history of Mexican migration and women's
increasing participation in the migration stream to the United
States, Wilson provides a brief history of women's labor in Mexico
and changes in gender relations during the last few decades. She
then introduces key concepts in migration theory, such as network
mediation, social capital formation, and transnational migration,
which are revisited throughout the book. Subsequent chapters are
dedicated to the migration and adaptation experiences of doAAa
Consuelo and her family members as expressed through conversations,
interviews, and the author's observations.
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