... system as simply a US–Mexico border issue by situating the burgeoning influence of East Asian nations and corporations in this economically profitable region of the world. Through the concept of glorientalization, I elucidate the connections between the all-encompassing gestures of globalization...

...Marie Sarita Gaytán Abstract Hailed by fans and critics as “Mexico’s Mother,” and later “Mexico’s Grandmother,” the actor Sara García exemplified the sentimental attributes associated with notions of womanhood. As Mexico’s mother par excellence, García created multigenerational portrayals...

...Michaela Django Walsh Abstract This piece, written in the form of a letter to my son, explains the meaning of his name. In Spanish the word lienzo is a type of drystone wall. Spanning rural areas of Mexico, the lienzo has—for centuries—been a way to gently delineate space. I frame the composition...

... used her art to bring attention to social issues particularly around women, immigration, and the US-Mexico border. Arroyo's FlordeVida(Flower ofLife) project celebrates women who form part of the mythologies of cultures from around the world, such as Lakshmi, Xochiquetzal, and Daphne. The vibrant...

... Barthes Roland . 1979 . Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography . New York : Macmillan . Cantú Norma Elia . 1995 . Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press . Chávez Denise . 2004 . The Last of the Menu Girls . Reprint...

... MERIDIANS 11:2 Another project commemorates the women who have been killed in Juarez, Mexico, where since 1992-the year that the NAFTAagreement made the city the site of hundreds of processing factories where women came to seek work-some 400 women have been murdered. Many of the victims, who were also...

... States" as a means of referring to the geographical crossroads in which the novelistic action will develop-Tome, a small, sleepy town thirty miles outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico, whose inhabitants strive to re-member their homeland, Mexico.3 Both the words contained in the epithet as well...

...; that is, by the combination of two female forms in a sexual relationship. In Lupe & Sirena in Love , the three iconic elements of Encuentro —the mermaid, the Virgin of Guadalupe, and the viceroy butterfly—are combined with more images: the cityscape of Los Angeles; the wall at the Mexico-U.S. border replete...

... Workers' struggle for economic justice. Chicano/a cultural workers-from graffiti artists to novelists-use the Virgin of Guadalupe as a sign of racial solidarity, for she is imagined to have brown skin, 2 or as a sign of transnational solidarity, for she is the patron saint of Mexico. Chicano/a artists...

... and people immediately cross my mind. A special issue ofTime titled "Welcome to Amexica" lists some of the products that cross over from Mexico on a daily basis: "a million barrels of crude oil, 432 tons of bell peppers, 238,000 lightbulbs, 166 brand-new Volkswagen Beetles, 16,250 toasters, $51 million worth...

... and 2005 recipient of three-month artist's residencies at the Wurlitzer Foundation ofTaos, New Mexico, and most recently won the Creative Woman Scholarship from A Room of Her Own Foundation. Presently, she is working on a new book of poems, VocabularoyfSilenceS. he lives in Taos, New Mexico. SHAHNAZKHAN...

... domestic workers and East Asian factory workers in the U.S./ Mexico borderlands are perceived are the subjects of Patricia de Satana Pinho's "The Dirty Body that Cleans and Long Thanh Bui's "Glorientalization: Specters of Asia and Feminized Cyborg Workers respectively. Pinho, utilizing Gramsci's "common...

... line, which moves from El Salvador, through Mexico, to Albuquerque, to Canada, and back to El Salvador, cannot contain the ways that the characters experience identities as global citizens. The final image ofMarfa's son, also named Jose Luis, committing to learning Spanish and working...

.... Throughout this time, sundry organizations, communities, and nations joined forces with the UN to organize, direct energy and resources toward women’s struggles, and unite in global conferences in Mexico City and Copenhagen (United Nations 1985 , 3). From the beginning, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs...

... in Mexico and their vulnerable diaspora in the United States. For the author-mother engaged in migrant advocacy—given ongoing policy attempts, to cross the U.S.-Mexico border is as difficult, dangerous, and deadly as possible (see Alvarez 2023 )—it is ever-urgent to ensure that her son recognizes his...

... on a map and is part of the national imagination and the psychology of multiple communities. Such geographical establishment is susceptible to political change, as evidenced when the United States moved the southern border with Mexico from the Rio Nueces to the Rio Grande and claimed the Southwest as US...

... of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press . Barceló-Miller María de Fátima . 1998 . “ Halfhearted Solidarity: Women Workers and the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Puerto Rico During the 1920s .” In Puerto Rican Women’s History: New Perspectives...

... generation. My grandparents, both sets, came from Mexico during the Revolutionary War of 1910. But my father managed to get up to the fifth grade [before he] started working. My mother managed to get through the second grade, [but]because my grandparents were migrant workers, they took the kids out of school...

...-Fordist production practices on impoverished women is also the central issue explored in WomenWorkingtheNAFTA Food Chain,which takes as its main focus the effects ofNAFTAon relations of agricultural production/consumption between Canada and Mexico. Like the Barrientos group, many of the contributors...

... as "foreign participants" by the organizers of the Fourth Encuentro in Mexico in 1987,we attended the Juan Dolio meeting by the hundreds, and the Eighth Encuentro's program was the first to include numerous sessions devoted to issues confronting women in the Latin American "diaspora." The sense of"group-ness...