MUJERES EN LA FRONTERA

MUJERES EN LA FRONTERA
Author: ALMELA BOIX Margarita
Publisher: Editorial UNED
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2014-05-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 8436267915

Mujeres en la frontera es el quinto volumen del Seminario Permanente sobre Literatura y Mujer.Siglos XX y XXI. Después de investigar sobre autoras y personajes femeninos en la obra Universos femeninos en la literatura actual. Mujeres de papel, sobre la pervivencia y reescrituras de mitos femeninos en Tejiendo el mito, sobre memoria, compromiso y autoficción en Ecos de la memoria y sobre espacios físicos y simbólicos de las mujeres en Mujeres a la conquista de espacios, el seminario ha dedicado su atención al tema de las migraciones, los exilios, las diásporas y la movilidad geográfica y cultural en general. Si en el imaginario de hace unas décadas los que emigraban eran sobre todo hombres, hace tiempo que se ha hecho evidente que los flujos migratorios no son una característica exclusivamente masculina. Es más, en la actualidad asistimos a una auténtica feminización de ciertas migraciones. ¿Cómo se refleja esto en la literatura?, ¿cómo lo ven y describen las mujeres?, ¿“viven” ellas el cruce de la frontera de forma distinta que los hombres? y ¿qué causas las llevan a traspasar las fronteras? Si las mujeres son por definición “extranjeras” en el mundo patriarcal, ¿acumulan en la migración una doble extranjería? Y una vez “en el otro lado”, ¿escriben en su propia lengua o en su lengua de adopción? Estos son algunos de los interrogantes que nos hemos planteado en esta nueva volumen del Seminario Permanente sobre Literatura y Mujer, de la UNED. Este nuevo volumen colectivo que presentamos está organizado en cuatro secciones: “Perspectivas históricas”, “Fronteras lingüísticas: Otro país, otra lengua”, “Fronteras geográficas: Desarraigo y otredad” y “Fronteras interiores”, que dan cuenta de la gran variedad de estudios aquí reunidos.

Mask of Democracy

Mask of Democracy
Author: Dan La Botz
Publisher: South End Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1992
Genre: Labor
ISBN: 9780896084377

Based on field research carried out in 1990-1991 in urban areas, with particular reference to maquiladoras enterprises along the US- Mexican border. Comprises an introduction by former US Secretary of Labour Ray Marshall advocating trade-linked labour standards.

Historias de Mujeres Indomables

Historias de Mujeres Indomables
Author: Malcriadas Fronterizas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-10-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781304966605

MALCRIADAS FRONTERIZAS is a powerful anthology about life at the USA/Mexico border, through the eyes of the domestic workers whose courage and contributions are boundless. These are stories that the world needs to hear-that have been ignored far too long-written courageously by their protagonists. They are daughters and mothers, labor organizers, and community leaders battling the day-to-day injustices of living in the borderlands, separated from their own loved ones while providing care for the loved ones of others. Their stories show is what is possible when everyday women choose to be MALCRIADAS. Ai-Jen Poo. President of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. MALCRIADAS FRONTERIZAS es una poderosa antología sobre la vida en la frontera de los Estados Unidos y México, desde los ojos de las trabajadoras domésticas cuyo coraje y contribuciones son ilimitadas. Estas son historias que el mundo necesita escuchar, que han sido ignoradas durante demasiado tiempo, escritas con valentía por sus protagonistas. Las MALCRIADAS FRONTERIZAS son hijas y madres, organizadoras laborales y líderes comunitarias que luchan contra las injusticias cotidianas de vivir en las zonas fronterizas. Ellas están separadas de sus propios seres queridos mientras cuidan a los seres queridos de otros. Sus historias muestran lo que es posible cuando las mujeres comunes eligen ser MALCRIADAS. Ai-Jen Poo. President of the National Domestic Workers Alliance

Capital Moves

Capital Moves
Author: Jefferson Cowie
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2019-01-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1501723561

Find a pool of cheap, pliable workers and give them jobs—and soon they cease to be as cheap or as pliable. What is an employer to do then? Why, find another poor community desperate for work. This route—one taken time and again by major American manufacturers—is vividly chronicled in this fascinating account of RCA's half century-long search for desirable sources of labor. Capital Moves introduces us to the people most affected by the migration of industry and, most importantly, recounts how they came to fight against the idea that they were simply "cheap labor." Jefferson Cowie tells the dramatic story of four communities, each irrevocably transformed by the opening of an industrial plant. From the manufacturer's first factory in Camden, New Jersey, where it employed large numbers of southern and eastern European immigrants, RCA moved to rural Indiana in 1940, hiring Americans of Scotch-Irish descent for its plant in Bloomington. Then, in the volatile 1960s, the company relocated to Memphis where African Americans made up the core of the labor pool. Finally, the company landed in northern Mexico in the 1970s—a region rapidly becoming one of the most industrialized on the continent.

Frontera Madre(hood)

Frontera Madre(hood)
Author: Cynthia Bejarano
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2024-09-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 081654669X

The topic of mothers and mothering transcends all spaces, from popular culture to intellectual thought and critique. This collection of essays bridges both methodological and theoretical frameworks to explore forms of mothering that challenge hegemonic understandings of parenting and traditional notions of Latinx womxnhood. It articulates the collective experiences of Latinx, Black, and Indigenous mothering from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Thirty contributors discuss their lived experiences, research, or community work challenging multiple layers of oppression, including militarization of the border, border security propaganda, feminicides, drug war and colonial violence, grieving and loss of a child, challenges and forms of resistance by Indigenous mothers, working mothers in maquiladoras, queer mothering, academia and motherhood, and institutional barriers by government systems to access affordable health care and environmental justice. Also central to this collection are questions on how migration and detention restructure forms of mothering. Overall, this collection encapsulates how mothering is shaped by the geopolitics of border zones, which also transcends biological, sociological, or cultural and gendered tropes regarding ideas of motherhood, who can mother, and what mothering personifies. Contributors Elva M. Arredondo Cynthia Bejarano Bertha A. Bermúdez Tapia Margaret Brown Vega Macrina Cárdenas Montaño Claudia Yolanda Casillas Luz Estela (Lucha) Castro Marisa Elena Duarte Taide Elena Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla Paula Flores Bonilla Judith Flores Carmona Sandra Gutiérrez Ma. Eugenia Hernández Sánchez Irene Lara Leticia López Manzano Mariana Martinez Maria Cristina Morales Paola Isabel Nava Gonzales Olga Odgers-Ortiz Priscilla Pérez Silvia Quintanilla Moreno Cirila Quintero Ramírez Felicia Rangel-Samponaro Coda Rayo-Garza Shamma Rayo-Gutierrez Marisol Rodríguez Sosa Brenda Rubio Ariana Saludares Victoria M. Telles Michelle Téllez Marisa S. Torres Edith Treviño Espinosa Mariela Vásquez Tobon Hilda Villegas

Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas

Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas
Author: Michelle Téllez
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0816542473

Near Tijuana, Baja California, the autonomous community of Maclovio Rojas demonstrates what is possible for urban place-based political movements. More than a community, Maclovio Rojas is a women-led social movement that works for economic and political autonomy to address issues of health, education, housing, nutrition, and security. Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas tells the story of the community’s struggle to carve out space for survival and thriving in the shadows of the U.S.-Mexico geopolitical border. This ethnography by Michelle Téllez demonstrates the state’s neglect in providing social services and local infrastructure. This neglect exacerbates the structural violence endemic to the border region—a continuation of colonial systems of power on the urban, rural, and racialized poor. Téllez shows that in creating the community of Maclovio Rojas, residents have challenged prescriptive notions of nation and belonging. Through women’s active participation and leadership, a women’s political subjectivity has emerged—Maclovianas. These border women both contest and invoke their citizenship as they struggle to have their land rights recognized, and they transform traditional political roles into that of agency and responsibility. This book highlights the U.S.-Mexico borderlands as a space of resistance, conviviality, agency, and creative community building where transformative politics can take place. It shows hope, struggle, and possibility in the context of gendered violences of racial capitalism on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border.