Mexican Women

Throughout the book Galvez continually uses immigration, fertility, choice (women’s autonomy), cultural practices, and family influence as major themes. Galvez explores the idea that while immigrating to the United States provided better health care opportunities for immigrant mothers and their unborn child, it also created multiple hardships for the immigrant mothers and family. A few of the hardships that were inflicted on the immigrant mothers were new stressors, social determinants, which were not worried about in Mexico. The new stressors include not having the social support they had in Mexico and the stress of work, food, and biomedical birthing practices. Galvez explores the idea of the women exercising autonomy in the decisions they make related to their child and the health practices they use during pregnancy. Furthermore, she investigates the idea that family influence cultivates some of the behaviors immigrant mothers partake in while in the United States as it relates to their native traditions.

During the discussion, Torres talked about many of difficulties the indigenous women and people of Chiapas face, and discussed about the Zapatista movement. In this paper, I will argue about the the voices of indigenous women of Chiapas, Mexico, with the evidence and providing details Torres discussed in her speech. Critics will say that the government acknowledges that indigenous people

Equally, liberal feminism (discriminatory policies which force women into an inferior social class without the consideration of their rights to participate fully); socialist feminism (the inequality rooted in the sexual division between paid and unpaid labor); and radical feminism (the power difference between men and women in a relationship) have surfaced . In result, the only way to overcome gender inequality is to prevent being exploited. A study done in Mexico by R. S. Oropesa in 1997, discovered that wives with an education were equivalent to their husbands in family power, were happier with their impact on the family and were less prone to violence. All in all, the pollution in society’s mind of women being lower than men is gradually seeping away as time

What is more important, years worth of tradition involving the oppression of women, or breaking that chain to live up to your dreams even if it means risking certain relationships with your family? In Mexican culture, is commonly known that from the moment you are born, family values and beliefs are applied and different things will be expected of you depending on your gender. For all in the culture, is mandatory you speak your native language, which is Spanish, and it is to be spoken always at home. Women are expected to stay at home and clean, care for the children, and take care of their husbands. Men work and take care of the finances of the household. The little girls are expected to clean once they reach an age where they can walk

Central American women are at an even greater risk of experiencing sexual abuse and other types of violence during their migration to the United States, especially in recent years, because of the spreading of gangs. In 2015, “nearly 110,000 people fleeing worsening gang and other violence in Central America’s northern triangle countries of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras sought asylum abroad.” Many times, Central Americans are attempting to escape the possibility of being sexually assaulted by gangs. However, not everyone has the time to apply for asylum because they are in immediate danger. For example, Sara Rincon, a college student from El Salvador testifies: ““He said no woman had ever turned him down, and if I refused to be his girlfriend, he would kill me and my family. I didn’t want to leave home but after that we couldn’t stay; we left for Mexico in the middle of the night.” Because Rincon and her family had to leave spontaneously, they are most likely going to be traveling undocumented, just like many other immigrants attempting to escape gang violence in Central America. Therefore, they must migrate through Mexico with the possibility of even more traumatic events ahead of them.

Domestic violence is an issue that has not been given much attention in the Hispanic culture as it is seen as a norm. Domestic violence is defined “as a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another intimate partner” (justice.gov). Hispanics are affected more than the non-Hispanic populations when it comes to the consequences domestic violence brings and also the constant occurrence of domestic violence in the Hispanic

Domestic violence involves the systematic use of force, threats and intimidation by one partner upon another in order for the dominating partner to have control over the victim. In general, women who are abused physically are often isolated. Their partners tend to control their lives to a great extent as well as verbally degrade them. Even though the Latina women are particularly vulnerable to domestic violence because of their culture, it does not mean that this situation does not exist in other societies. Domestic violence happens in all races, religions and social statuses. It could appear in any family and in order to prevent it, everyone in the society must have knowledge of the problem, and

In the literature review the main focus will be on the causes of the violence or abuse as well as the consequences that the victims go through. Among Hispanic women, there are women who are least likely to seek help or treatment after they have suffered abuse (Cho 2012).

Illegal, Latina immigrant women experiencing domestic violence are highly unlikely to report this violence to law enforcement and are unable take legal action against their husbands. These women live in constant fear of being discovered and deported and consequently are unlikely to view law enforcement as a helpful resource. Immigrant women are more likely experience domestic violence due to a number of factors. Because of their illegal status, these women are more likely to live in poverty which, according to Bergen, means that they are more likely to experience male to female interpersonal violence (Bergen 2005). High in-home stress coupled with the constant fear of being discovered and deported also leads to a higher likelihood of violence (Barnett, Miller-Perrin, Perrin, 2011). Even if these women want to leave their home and take action against their husbands, most are economically dependent on their partners. While the United States has the Violence Against Women Act, or VAWA, which can aid illegal immigrants experiencing domestic violence in obtaining a visa, the fear of deportation keeps many women from seeking aid from social services and law enforcement. The lack of resources and fear ultimately allows domestic violence to perpetuate amidst an already vulnerable, invisible population.

Currently Mexican and Chilean women and society have experimented many changes in their living standards. There has been an incredible change in the way that women are being treated, especially by male gender. Nowadays, Femicide is one of the most important issues in Chile, where exists a huge amount of cases of it, additionally it has been considered that more than one hundred women have been murdered by their husbands, boyfriends or friends during the last years. In relation to this, Chilean government paid little attention to the situation, because until 2010 violence against women had been considered domestic violence and not as femicide.

Femicide has been considered the most extreme form of gender violence against women and one of the most important human rights violations in Mexico, especially in ciudad Juarez, where exist a high level of cases related to women who had been killed by men, but today Chile also is one of the countries that is living this reality. In addition to this, It has been considered that in Chile more than 100 women had died as a consequence of this crime, but some years ago little attention was given to the different cases presented in diverse cities; but the government and most of people pay attention to this when the phenomenon has spread throughout the country, positioning it in the most important issue nowadays. For this reason, this research is

The poor are not the only social disadvantaged group in Mexico. Ciudad Juárez, is a remarkable gender focus case in the Mexican crime scene. Connected to the Juárez cartel, the city is deeply plagued with crime, drug trafficking and corruption; not only so, it is most recognizable for its heinous cases of feminicide. After the North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexico was invaded with maquiladoras along its border, thus giving the opportunity of employment, as wells as, encouraging the migration of mostly young women to Ciudad Juárez. The high concentration of vulnerable women in Juárez is only equal to the high rates of murder and abuse of women. According to Amnesty International – a non-governmental organization focused on human rights – more than “800 bodies had been

Human trafficking is one of the major issue that need to be fix. In this article, it is discussed about how the human trafficking should control using the alternatives in between The United State and Mexico. According to the U.S. Department of State, nearly 80 percent of victims are female, whereas 70 percent of them imposed on sexual trade. One of the most potential option for reducing the human trafficking is building the wall between these two countries. Whereas, it is more costly to build this architecture and might take many years to complete, it is not useful to apply as soon as possible. On the otherhand through the legalization of entry to US would decrease the illegal entry. As a part of Merida Initiative both countries is working

Like so many of the topics studied by investigators in our research institutions, domestic violence does not happen in a vacuum. In an attempt to better understand DV as it occurs in the real world with the accompanying compounding issues which often occur with DV (e.g. addiction, financial problems, health issues, language barriers, etc.), I propose a two-part research project. The first part will focus on undocumented DV survivors and their experiences and journey toward seeking assistance/resources for DV. The second part will focus on the perpetrator of DV and attempt to identify typologies of batterers. Taken together the hope is that this research project will provide a better understanding of domestic violence as experienced in the community.

As this project’ effort is to understand a causal relationship between state citizenship law and human rights violation of female migrant workers in specific, and to shed light on gendered aspects in cross-border migration, which has not been examined enough in migration studies (Castles and Davidson, 2000; Mahler and Pessar, 2001 and 2006) in general, it premises several feminist ideas regarding cross-border migration studies. Specifically, this paper regards female migrants not as mere victims, but proactive agency in cross-border migration, who cross border not only as a company of her husband, but also as an individual worker (Nakamatsu, 2003; Sutton, 1992; Piper and Roces, 2003; Mahler and Pessar, 2001 and 2006). Also, it understands gender rights as one of the important components of citizenship rights (Castles and Davidson, 2000), and considers that citizenship law is gendered, and therefore female migrants suffer more than male migrants.