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Mexico's Missed Opportunities To Protect Irregular Women Transmigrants: Applying A Gender Lens To Migration Law Reform, Alyson L. Dimmitt Gnam Jun 2013

Mexico's Missed Opportunities To Protect Irregular Women Transmigrants: Applying A Gender Lens To Migration Law Reform, Alyson L. Dimmitt Gnam

Washington International Law Journal

Mexico is a transit country for hundreds of thousands of migrants traveling north. Due to economic liberalization, women increasingly migrate in search of employment opportunities, a phenomenon called the “feminization of migration.” As women migrate, they face high risks of sexual and gender-based violence, including sexual assault, rape, kidnapping, and trafficking. During transit, the impunity of organized criminal groups and corrupt state officials facilitate rampant abuse of women. Mexico’s former migration policy exacerbated women’s vulnerability to abuse by criminal organizations by pushing women into dangerous illicit migration channels. In response to the abuse of transmigrants, Mexico passed a sweeping migration …


American Dreams, Trafficking Nightmares, Mariana C. Minaya Jan 2013

American Dreams, Trafficking Nightmares, Mariana C. Minaya

Student Articles and Papers

Under the H-2 visa scheme, American employers rely on labor recruiters to venture abroad, find prospective employees, and commit them to an employment contract for seasonal or temporary work on American farms, construction sites, hotel staffs, and other businesses. Rogue recruiters, operating in foreign countries far from the view of their American employers or law enforcement, are in effect free to employ a variety of unscrupulous means for enticing and obtaining prospective recruits. They may lie about the nature of the work that awaits the recruits in the United States, charge them illegal fees that leave them in crushing debt, …


Determining The Reasonableness Of Non-Compliance: Examining The Trauma Exception For T-Visa Applicants., Benjamin Thomas Greer, Scott Davidson Dyle Jan 2013

Determining The Reasonableness Of Non-Compliance: Examining The Trauma Exception For T-Visa Applicants., Benjamin Thomas Greer, Scott Davidson Dyle

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

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