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Migration and decent work. Challenges for the Global South
Migration and Decent Work: Challenges for the Global South takes a journey through nine countries in the global South—from Mexico to India to Argentina to Turkey—to explore the relationship between migration and work from a human rights perspective. Labor insertion is one of the most effective forms of integration because it allows migrants and refugees to enjoy more dignified living conditions, to contribute to the development of host communities, and to build relationships with the local population. But ensuring the right to work is a challenge for countries in the global South that have weak or developing economies and problems with job creation, which can force many people—not just...
Border Killers
Border Killers delves into how recent Mexican creators have reported, analyzed, distended, and refracted the increasingly violent world of neoliberal Mexico, especially its versions of masculinity. By looking to the insights of artists, writers, and filmmakers, Elizabeth Villalobos offers a path for making sense and critiquing very real border violence in contemporary Mexico. Villalobos focuses on representations of “border killers” in literature, film, and theater. The author develops a metaphor of “maquilization” to describe the mass-production of masculine violence as a result of neoliberalism. The author demonstrates that the killer is an interchangeable cog in a societal factory...
Migración y trabajo decente
Se realiza un recorrido por nueve países del Sur Global desde México hasta la India y desde la Argentina hasta Turquía para debatir sobre la relación entre migración y trabajo desde un enfoque de derechos humanos. La inserción laboral es una de las formas más efectivas de integración pues le permite a las personas migrantes y refugiadas vivir en condiciones más dignas, contribuir al desarrollo de las comunidades de acogida y establecer relaciones con la población local. Sin embargo, garantizar el derecho al trabajo constituye un reto para los países del Sur Global que tienen economías débiles o en vías de desarrollo y problemas de generación de empleo, lo que puede condenar a ...
Beyond Drugs, Smuggling and Trafficking
Graphic depictions of crime in Mexico abound in the global imagination, fueled not merely by media representations, but also by an abundant body of scholarship that reproduces grotesque, simplistic characterizations of Mexico’s people, cities and towns as crime-ridden and almost inherently violent. These representations, however, often lack evidence and forgo important contextual analyses, not to mention fail to incorporate the perspectives of its actors in the research development process. This collection of essays shows how community-based research efforts to examine practices like kidnapping, migrant smuggling, human trafficking, sex work and citizen-led forensics in Mexico can effectiv...
Antropologías feministas en México
Antropologías Feministas en México: Epistemologías, éticas, prácticas y miradas diversas constituye un esfuerzo colectivo que plasma una poderosa conversación entre antropólogas de varias instituciones, regiones y generaciones. A través de 20 capítulos se abordan desde los modelos epistemológicos surgidos en los años 80, hasta los acercamientos metodológicos, como el dialógico y el colaborativo. Se presentan trayectorias personales y temas abordados desde la perspectiva feminista, que dan cuenta de la persistencia de la cultura patriarcal y la violencia estructural que lesiona los derechos de las mujeres y de otros sujetos diversos, pero también se documentan expresiones de su agencia desde la academia, el activismo político, las organizaciones de la sociedad civil, los movimientos de mujeres indígenas, afrodescendientes, campesinas, lgtb+, entre otros; mostrando la vigencia del feminismo como una de las corrientes teórico-políticas más significativas de este milenio. La obra en su conjunto es una contribución a los debates actuales y al diálogo dentro y fuera de las ciencias antropológicas.
Más allá del rescate de víctimas:
Los mercados sexuales son campos heterogéneos que varían no sólo de acuerdo con los contextos legales y sociales, sino también a partir de las experiencias subjetivas de las personas dentro de estos mismos mercados. Este libro es una denuncia de las violencias institucionales (estatales, policiacas) que reducen a toda trabajadora sexual a un estatuto de víctima, a partir de una serie de ideas preconcebidas. Se presenta aquí un panorama en el que se estudian las características y las formas de operar de los mercados sexuales latinoamericanos, así como su relación con otros fenómenos. Los dos ejes de análisis del libro son el trabajo sexual y la trata de personas.
Women, Business and the Law 2021
Women, Business and the Law 2021 is the seventh in a series of annual studies measuring the laws and regulations that affect women’s economic opportunity in 190 economies. The project presents eight indicators structured around women’s interactions with the law as they move through their lives and careers: Mobility, Workplace, Pay, Marriage, Parenthood, Entrepreneurship, Assets, and Pension. This year’s report updates all indicators as of October 1, 2020 and builds evidence of the links between legal gender equality and women’s economic inclusion. By examining the economic decisions women make throughout their working lives, as well as the pace of reform over the past 50 years, Women, Business and the Law 2021 makes an important contribution to research and policy discussions about the state of women’s economic empowerment. Prepared during a global pandemic that threatens progress toward gender equality, this edition also includes important findings on government responses to COVID-19 and pilot research related to childcare and women’s access to justice.
Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2019
Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2019 presents indicators that measure the laws, regulations and bureaucratic processes that affect farmers in 101 countries. The study covers eight thematic areas: supplying seed, registering fertilizer, securing water, registering machinery, sustaining livestock, protecting plant health, trading food and accessing finance. The report highlights global best performers and countries that made the most significant regulatory improvements in support of farmers.
Limnoperna Fortunei
This book summarizes all currently available information on the ecology, environmental impacts and control methods of the golden mussel in industrial plants. The golden mussel was introduced in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and South America between 1965 and 1990, swiftly spreading in freshwater waterbodies. In most areas invaded it has become the dominant macroinverebrate and a major fouling pest of industrial plants. Limnoperna fortunei attaches to any hard surface, as well as to some less firm substrates. The growth of Limnoperna populations in raw cooling water conduits became a common nuisance in many industrial and power plants that use raw river or lake water for their processes, both in South America and in Asia. This work is written by experts on the golden mussel from Asia, Europe, North America and South America, each chapter critically reviews previously available information, which is in sources of limited distribution, such as internal reports and theses, in various languages.
The Atlantic Forest
The Atlantic Forest is one of the 36 hotspots for biodiversity conservation worldwide. It is a unique, large biome (more than 3000 km in latitude; 2500 in longitude), marked by high biodiversity, high degree of endemic species and, at the same time, extremely threatened. Approximately 70% of the Brazilian population lives in the area of this biome, which makes the conflict between biodiversity conservation and the sustainability of the human population a relevant issue. This book aims to cover: 1) the historical characterization and geographic variation of the biome; 2) the distribution of the diversity of some relevant taxa; 3) the main threats to biodiversity, and 4) possible opportunities to ensure the biodiversity conservation, and the economic and social sustainability. Also, it is hoped that this book can be useful for those involved in the development of public policies aimed at the conservation of this important global biome.
