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Numerous scholars have analyzed the political victimization of undocumented Mexican (im)migrant women. A study of women farm workers and state legislative politics in the Salinas Valley reveals gendered circuits of power that link undocumented women to Latino elected officials through their particip...

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Published in:Latin American perspectives 2008-01, Vol.35 (1), p.78-98
Main Author: Seif, Hinda
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Immigrants
Marginality
Mexico
Mobilization
Victimization
Womens Groups
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Summary:Numerous scholars have analyzed the political victimization of undocumented Mexican (im)migrant women. A study of women farm workers and state legislative politics in the Salinas Valley reveals gendered circuits of power that link undocumented women to Latino elected officials through their participation in electoral mobilizations led by the United Farm Workers union and facilitated by Latina organizers. Power flows from politicians to immigrant women and circulates in the reverse direction through the organizing efforts of undocumented activists. The political agency of these women farm workers is severely limited, however, by the mutual reinforcement of their immigration status and their economic marginalization. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright 2008.]
ISSN:0094-582X
DOI:10.1177/0094582X07310969