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Full-Text Articles in Latin American Studies
The Exploitation Of Women In Mexico's Maquiladoras, Jennifer Gibbs
The Exploitation Of Women In Mexico's Maquiladoras, Jennifer Gibbs
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Maquiladora factories, created in 1965 as part of Mexico's Border Industrialization Program, have become the backbone of economic progress along the United StateslMexico boundary. These factories, largely owned by foreign investors, have drawn thousands ofwomen from Mexico's interiors to work in the area. As a result, globalization and increased foreign investment have created cultural, environmental, and occupational hardships and hazards for female Mexican laborers despite the monetary gains that have resulted from Mexican and United States government programs.
Performing Tourism: Maya Women's Strategies, Walter E. Little
Performing Tourism: Maya Women's Strategies, Walter E. Little
Anthropology Faculty Scholarship
Walter Little is assistant professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Albany and codirector of Oxlajuj Aj, Tulane University’s Kaqchikel Language and Culture class in Guatemala. He has conducted fieldwork among Maya handicrafts producers and vendors since 1992 on issues related to tourism, gender roles, and identity performance, and this research is the subject of his book, Mayas in the Marketplace: Tourism, Globalization, and Cultural Identity (Austin: University of Texas, 2004).
Missing From The Miracle: Microcredit And Urban Market Women In Bolivia, Stephanie L. Small
Missing From The Miracle: Microcredit And Urban Market Women In Bolivia, Stephanie L. Small
Honors Theses
On an organizational level supporting the success story of microcredit allows banks to profit, as seen with BancoSol. It allows organizations to continue to receive funding, as seen with FIE. It allows NGOs to simplify the problem of poverty to one of lack of credit and personal ignorance. By doing so, NGOs can maintain training programs which place the client at fault for her poverty, as seen in ProMujer. They appeal to a common sense understanding of poverty and its causes and as a result, continue to receive the necessary funding. The Journal of Commerce is a 170 year old …