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Gender, Masculinities And Immigrant Workers: Using Gendered Experiences In The Las Vegas Residential Construction Trades To Reframe Title Vii Analysis, Leticia M. Saucedo
Gender, Masculinities And Immigrant Workers: Using Gendered Experiences In The Las Vegas Residential Construction Trades To Reframe Title Vii Analysis, Leticia M. Saucedo
Leticia M. Saucedo
This Article explores the intersection of gender, immigration and masculinities in the context of the immigrant workplace in the United States. It does so by analyzing some of the findings from the Immigrant Construction Worker Study, a qualitative empirical study conducted in Las Vegas, Nevada of immigrant construction workers employed in the residential construction industry. Between 2006 and 2007 the author and her collaborator, sociologist Cristina Morales, interviewed over seventy-five (75) male and female construction workers in Las Vegas, with the purpose of understanding the demographic changes in the residential construction industry and their effects on workers. The study’s empirical …
The Illusion Of Transformative Conflict Resolution: Mediating Domestic Violence In Nicaragua, Leticia M. Saucedo, Raquel Aldana
The Illusion Of Transformative Conflict Resolution: Mediating Domestic Violence In Nicaragua, Leticia M. Saucedo, Raquel Aldana
Leticia M. Saucedo
In this article, we examine the implementation of mediation in domestic violence cases in Nicaragua as a case study of the transnational movement of alternative conflict resolution through rule-of-law reforms across the world. Unlike scholarship about mediation in the United States, the effects of mediation’s global implementation are undertheorized. This article examines the importation of U.S. style mediation and its implementation in domestic violence situations in developing countries such as Nicaragua where traditional legal systems are weaker than those institutionalized in the United States. In particular, we evaluate mediation as applied in Mulukukú, an isolated community in the rural north …