RT Article
T1 Rape as a weapon of war: advancing human rights for women at the U.S.-Mexico border
JF Social justice
VO 28
IS 2
SP 31
OP 50
A1 Falcón, Sylvanna M.
LA English
YR 2001
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747159220
AB Part of a special issue on immigration and boundary policing in an era of globalization. The writer discusses rape as one of the consequences of militarization along the U.S.-Mexico border. Using data from nongovernmental organizations, government committees, and U.S. newspapers, she investigates specific cases of militarized border rape. She argues that national security rape, an instrument for bolstering a nervous state, and systematic mass rape, an instrument of open warfare, characterize the reality in the U.S.-Mexico border region. She comments on the factors associated with militarized rape and argues the need to promote human rights as a framework for assessing the circumstances in women's migration and the need to advance human rights in general for women in the border region.
K1 United States. Immigration & Naturalization Service
K1 Border patrols
K1 United States -- Relations
K1 Rape
K1 Social History
K1 Trials (Rape)
K1 Women
K1 Mexicans -- United States
K1 Human rights -- United States
K1 Human Rights