Evaluation of Maquiladoras on the U.S.-Mexico Border with Respect to Wo

Evaluation of Maquiladoras on the U.S.-Mexico Border with Respect to Womens health The U.S.-Mexico fence in is a true contact zone. It is a physical protrude where two distinct cultures meet, conflict, and ultimately collide. For its inhabitants, the border is never an easy swan to live in. In fact, Gloria Anzalda, who calls herself a border woman, describes the U.S.-Mexican border as a 1950 mile long open wounda vague and unexplained get into (1, 3-4). Currently, a powerful characteristic that defines life on the border for many of its residents is the growing number of maquiladoras that have become a meter sight in any border town. Maquiladoras ar essentially external owned factories that employ workers in U.S.-Mexico border towns for cheap labor. The border and the maquiladoras seem to share a unique synergy in todays society. They are tightly tied together, each having mutual positive and damaging qualities. For example, while the physical border can be a pl ace of excitement and learning about another culture and way of life, the psychological border can be restrictive, an all-encompassing dividing line between those who are and those who are not. It separates us from them (Anzalda 3). Similarly, while the maquiladoras have brought jobs and economic occupation to border towns, they have also been characterized as having unhealthy working conditions that are detrimental to the workers and surrounding community. Today, the maquiladoras have certainly become a way out of much discourse because of their possible harmful effects on rafts health. An important issue is their effect on womens health, since women redact the majority of the workforce in the maquiladoras. The influx of maquiladoras in the U.S.... ... Maquiladora Workers in Tijuana, Mexico. American journal of Industrial Medicine 24 (1993) 667-676. Guendelman, Sylvia, Steven Samuels, and Martha Ramirez. Women Who Quit Maquiladora Work on the U.S.-Mexico Border Assess ing Health, Occupation, and Social Dimensions in Two Transnational Electronics Plants. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 33 (1998) 501-509. Guendelman, Sylvia and Monica Jasis Silberg. The Health Consequences of Maquiladora Work Women on the US-Mexican Border. American Journal of Public Health 83 (1993) 37-44. Moure-Eraso, Rafael, et al. Back to the Future Sweatshop Conditions on the Mexico-U.S. Border. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 25 (1994) 311-324. Prieto, Norma Iglesias. Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora. Trans. Michael oppose and Gabrielle Winkler. Austin University of Texas Press, 1997.