The following are valuable resources that may interest those looking to learn more information:
Señorita Extraviada (Missing Young Woman), a film that tells the story of the hundreds of kidnapped, raped and murdered young women of Juárez, Mexico.
The Daughters of Juarez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border, a book written by former news anchor for Univision (Spanish-language television network) Teresa Rodriguez. For Teresa, drawing attention to what many consider a failed police response become an obsession. She conducted her own investigation into the killings and sought to give an eye-opening account of the Ciudad Juarez murders.
Making A Killing: Femicide, Free Trade, And La Frontera a book that compiles several different scholarly interventions from diverse perspectives, including feminism, Marxism, critical race theory, semiotics, and textual analysis. The book considers the interconnections between gender, violence, and the U.S.-Mexico border. It also examines the social and cultural conditions that have led to the heinous victimization of women on the border from globalization, free trade agreements, exploitative maquiladora working conditions, and border politics, to the sexist attitudes that pervade the social discourse about the victims. Explored are the evolving social movement that has been created by NGOs, mothers’ organizing efforts, and other grassroots forms of activism related to the crimes.
Bordertown, a film starring Jennifer Lopez who plays a journalist who investigates a series of murders near American-owned factories on the border of Juarez and El Paso.
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