LAS Nadies: Border Insecurity, Rape & Gender through the Lens of Human Rights in Mexico
Location
Center for Library Instruction, Joseph P. Healey Library (4th Floor), University of Massachusetts Boston
Start Date
29-4-2015 12:10 PM
End Date
29-4-2015 12:25 PM
Description
This paper serves as an analysis of the plight of women migrants as they travel from Mexico to the United States. Its aim is not solely, as many works before have done, to present mere statistics. Stating that 60-80% of women are raped on their perilous journey to the United States is unoriginal. Furthermore, as I propose in this paper rape statistics are wholly unreliable due to the volume of individuals that simply do not report incidents. No, this paper serves to examine and ask WHAT is being done about these issues and WHAT does this mean for human rights and gender rights in Mexico. I will draw from different sources such as the IACHR, OAS and International Declaration of Human Rights. Lastly I will address how these issues have become “nonissues” or made irrelevant through the lens of the mainly Caucasian, migrant fearing, dominant discourse. This will be backed not only from a strictly scholarly perspective but also from a literary viewpoint. In this manner the poem “Los Nadies” by Eduardo Galeano will be examined as it is pertinent to the understanding and examination of the dismissal of migrant, Chicano and gender studies.
LAS Nadies: Border Insecurity, Rape & Gender through the Lens of Human Rights in Mexico
Center for Library Instruction, Joseph P. Healey Library (4th Floor), University of Massachusetts Boston
This paper serves as an analysis of the plight of women migrants as they travel from Mexico to the United States. Its aim is not solely, as many works before have done, to present mere statistics. Stating that 60-80% of women are raped on their perilous journey to the United States is unoriginal. Furthermore, as I propose in this paper rape statistics are wholly unreliable due to the volume of individuals that simply do not report incidents. No, this paper serves to examine and ask WHAT is being done about these issues and WHAT does this mean for human rights and gender rights in Mexico. I will draw from different sources such as the IACHR, OAS and International Declaration of Human Rights. Lastly I will address how these issues have become “nonissues” or made irrelevant through the lens of the mainly Caucasian, migrant fearing, dominant discourse. This will be backed not only from a strictly scholarly perspective but also from a literary viewpoint. In this manner the poem “Los Nadies” by Eduardo Galeano will be examined as it is pertinent to the understanding and examination of the dismissal of migrant, Chicano and gender studies.
Comments
Taylor Doherty (Latin American and Iberian Studies Department & Political Science Department)