Tamar Diana Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3616539 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tamar Diana Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tamar Diana |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON T D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri–St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1973-0957 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Comment on Nemer Narchi’s Paper on Environmental Destruction
De la Protesta a la Propuesta
Environmental Devastation
Hegemony, Quasi-Counterhegemony, and Counterhegemony in Pesticide Use in Latin America With Special Reference to Mexico
In the center of the corporate agricultural regime is the pesticide-industrial complex which is part of the current hegemonic order in the reproduction of capitalism. There are quasi-counterhegemonic movements, however, in the form of Integrated Pest Management and a fully counterhegemonic trend in the form of agroecology. Not only does agroecology as a science and practice eschew the use of pesticides in favor of biological controls developed by…
Farm Laborers in the Valley of San Quintín
Gender as a Socially Constructed and "Structural" Category
The Capitalist Commodification of Animals
This volume offers analysis regarding the historical transformations in the material conditions and ideological conceptions of nonhuman animals, alienated speciesism, the ecological crisis that is undermining the conditions of life for all species, and the capitalist commodification of animals that results in suffering, death, and profits.
Introduction: Special Issue on Precarious and Informal Work
Capitalist Commodification of Animals
Climate Change, Neoliberalism, and Migration: Mexican Sons of Peasants on the Beach
Climate change and neoliberal policies in Mexico have been fomenting migration by campesinos and their sons. This migration is primarily internal, to cities and tourist centers, where migrants engage in informal and semi-informal income-generating activities. Interviews with 32 beach vendors, sons of campesinos, in Cabo San Lucas reflect these two drivers of migration: while most reported that they would like to farm, they identified drought and …
Indigenous Migrations to Baja California Sur: Regional Economic Enclaves and Ethnic Apartheid
Introduction: The Urban Informal Economy Revisited
The Informal Economy and Social Programs in Mexico: A Critique
In the wake of neoliberal reforms that devastated the country, Mexico and the World Bank converged on providing at least two social programs in the guise of "humanitarian" capitalism. Progresa, also known as Oportunidades and more recently Prospera, involves a workfare-based cash transfer program aimed at enhancing the human capital of future generations. The program has been criticized for its exploitation of the work of mothers. Seguro Popular …
Mexico’s Rural Poor and Targeted Educational and Health Programs
A paradigm shift from the articulation of modes of production approach to the livelihoods diversification approach, occurring in the early 1990s, coincided and was symbiotic with neoliberal and capitalist interventions among the peasant poor, whether they continue to live in rural regions of origin or have migrated to urban centers. Although partially successful in relieving the dire situation of some of the poor, programs such as Progresa/Oportu…
China and Latin America: Processes and Paradoxes
Chinese Immigrants in Mexico
Transnationalism within: A study of beach vendors in Cabo San Lucas (Mexico)
It is argued that some tourist centers are denationalized and transnational social spaces created since the 1970s by neoliberal policies married to the forces of globalization. They are transnational social spaces not only because of transnational investment and the migration of tourists and expatriates who settle both semi-permanently and permanently, but also because of internal migration flows that must cross (internal) political, as well as c…
Violence against Women in Latin America
Violence against women is worldwide in scope. It occurs in both developed and developing countries and regardless of the dominant religion or political ideology. Among the forms it can take are intimate-partner or domestic violence rape whether by acquaintances or family members or during war and civil strife trafficking for purposes of prostitution or other forced work and debt bondage physical and sexual injury of prostitutes sex-selective abor…
Testimonials
Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750-1856
Sonya Lipsett- Rivera analyzes gender dynamics in Mexico from 1750 to 1856. She does this by looking both at etiquette books written during this period and at archival materials from the state of Puebla and Mexico City that document instances of gender violence that reached the courts. The author views gender relations through the unique lenses of space and the body and bases her arguments on the concept of honor.The effects of space on gender ca…
Indigenous Beach Vendors in P uerto V allarta and A capulco, M exico
Photo Essay: Beach and Marina Vendors in Mexican Resorts
Women Beach and Marina Vendors in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico: Considerations about Their Marginalization
The tourism sector in developing regions that are highly integrated into international markets has noticeable effects on the growth of the informal economy. For women vendors on the beach and the marina of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, where the economy revolves around tourism and real estate, hawking souvenirs is an opportunity for empowerment and income, but it can also lead to their exploitation and self-exploitation. While women may suffer discrimi…
Tourism, Gender, and Ethnicity
Cumulative Causation Unbounded: Network Expansion in Rural and Urban Migration Centers
There is a tendency in the migration literature to see rural communities that send many migrants to the United States as closed communities. The theory of cumulative causation rests on the assumption of bounded communities and posits a saturation point at which no more migration from the community occurs. The implication that eventually there will be no further migration from a given community ignores the existence of networks that bind people fr…
The culture of Mexican migration
In an attempt to develop a definition of the Mexican 'culture of migration', the long history of migration within Mexico and across the US-Mexico border is summarized and definitions of culture explored. It is found that internal migration within greater Mexico has been common since at least the time of the Conquest. The culture of Mexican migration is seen to rest on attitudes and norms sanctioning the maintenance of reciprocity networks, the es…
Anti-immigrant Sentiment and the Problem of Reproduction/Maintenance in Mexican Immigration to the United States
This article explores the links between 1) the growing militarization of the US-Mexico border; 2) state legislation such as California's Proposition 187 designed to deny undocumented workers and their non-citizen wives and children state-funded medical, educational, and other social services; 3) the call by some sectors of the population to deny US citizenship to children born in the US to undocumented immigrants, but in most cases also to legall…
Economic and Social Impacts of Tourism in Mexico
In developing its tourist industry, the Mexican government had three main goals: earning foreign exchange, creating employment, and diverting internal migration toward tourism development poles. Statistics on employment and in-migration to Mazatlán, Puerto Vallarta, Cancún, and Los Cabos show that it has been relatively successful in achieving these goals. However, Mexico has increased its dependency on loans, foreign capital, and foreign patrona…
Approaches to Understanding the Position of Women Workers in the Informal Sector
Although many studies of the informal economy tend to be gender-blind, being male or female affects one's movements, possibilities, and career trajectories in the informal sector. Partly because of societal, cultural, and familial patriarchal constraints, women often constitute an especially vulnerable, superexploitable labor force (Safa, 1995). Women in the informal sector may be married or single heads of household. As women married to male hea…
Rape for Profit: Trafficking of Nepali Girls and Women to India's Brothels
Violence against Women in Latin America
Violence against women is worldwide in scope. It occurs in both developed and developing countries and regardless of the dominant religion or political ideology. Among the forms it can take are intimate-partner or domestic violence rape whether by acquaintances or family members or during war and civil strife trafficking for purposes of prostitution or other forced work and debt bondage physical and sexual injury of prostitutes sex-selective abor…
Theoretical Approaches to Mexican Wage Labor Migration
The author reviews theoretical approaches to the study of both internal and international migration in Mexico. (ANNOTATION)
Introduction: The Urban Informal Economy Revisited
Pharaonic Circumcision Under Patriarchy and Breast Augmentation Under Phallocentric Capitalism: Similarities and Differences
In this article, the author discusses the similarities and differences between Pharaonic circumcision and reinfibulation and breast augmentation under systems of male dominance and female subordination. Despite the medical problems associated with each, women choose to be reinfibulated or have breast implants. There are systemic reasons associated with male dominance—in the case of reinfibulation, patriarchy and polygamy, and in the case of breas…
We seek work where we can: A comparison of patterns of transnational outmigration from a rancho in Jalisco and of internal migration into a Mexicali squatter settlement
(1993). We seek work where we can: A comparison of patterns of transnational outmigration from a rancho in Jalisco and of internal migration into a Mexicali squatter settlement. Journal of Borderlands Studies: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 33-58
Reflexive Ethnography: A Guide to Researching Selves and Others
Reflexive Ethnography:. Guide to Researching Selves and Others. Charlotte Aull Davies. New York: Routledge, 1999.257 pp
The Mexican Outsiders: A Community History of Marginalization and Discrimination
The Mexican Outsiders:. Community History of Marginalization and Discrimination. Martha Menchaca. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. 250 pp
Climate Change, Neoliberalism, and Migration: Mexican Sons of Peasants on the Beach
Climate change and neoliberal policies in Mexico have been fomenting migration by campesinos and their sons. This migration is primarily internal, to cities and tourist centers, where migrants engage in informal and semi-informal income-generating activities. Interviews with 32 beach vendors, sons of campesinos, in Cabo San Lucas reflect these two drivers of migration: while most reported that they would like to farm, they identified drought and …
Tourism, Gender, and Ethnicity
Strapping the Mexican Woman Immigrant: The Convergence of Reproduction and Production
Strapping the Mexican Woman Immigrant:The Convergence of Reproduction and Production Tamar Diana Wilson Although more than half of the immigrants to the United States since the 1930s have been women (Houstoun, Kramer, and Barrett 1984), until the last two decades males were exceptionally predominant among Mexican immigrants (Donato 1993, Zahniser 2000), especially the undocumented. The numbers are converging, however, for at least five reasons. F…
Indigenous Beach Vendors in P uerto V allarta and A capulco, M exico
Women Beach and Marina Vendors in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico: Considerations about Their Marginalization
The tourism sector in developing regions that are highly integrated into international markets has noticeable effects on the growth of the informal economy. For women vendors on the beach and the marina of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, where the economy revolves around tourism and real estate, hawking souvenirs is an opportunity for empowerment and income, but it can also lead to their exploitation and self-exploitation. While women may suffer discrimi…
Economic Crisis and the Decline of Remittances to Mexico
Economic Crisis and the Decline of Remittances to Mexico Tamar Diana Wilson In this era of globalization and strong migratory flows what happens in the United States and other core capitalist countries has repercussions on the developing world. Anthropologists working in both migrant-sending communities in Latin America and in migrant-receiving communities in the United States currently have the opportunity to map how economic downturn in the rec…
Rethinking migration: New theoretical and empirical perspectives - Edited by Alejandro Portes & Josh DeWind
I Thought Horses Was the Best Thing Ever: Irish Jarveys in Dublin
Tourism is a major source of income for the Irish economy: in 2002 there were 1.55 tourists per resident of the Republic. When high unemployment rates hit the country in the 1980s, a new niche in the tourist economy was opened in Dublin: jarveying, or taking tourists around the city by horse and carriage. Involving agency and entrepreneurship, the Dublin jarveys are of proletarian origins, coming from some of the poorest areas in the city. The fa…
Wage-Labor Migration and Class in Jalisco and the United States
U.S. markets have been envisioned as split (Bonacich, 1972), dual (Piore, 1986; 1979), segmented (Edwards, Reich, and Gordon, 1975), and more recently, composed of downgraded versus dynamic sectors (Sassen, 1998). Common to all these conceptions is the idea that markets in advanced capitalist societies tend to be (at a minimum) two-tiered, with the lower tier occupied by poor, mainly unskilled, semiskilled, and deskilled (Braverman, 1974) laborer…
The Rodina
The Rodina" is the story of a woman agricultural worker whom I came to know while doing Ph.D. research from 1988 to 1991 on patterns of migration to a Mexicali squatter settlement. The incidents in her life, as recorded in the story, are those which she reported to me when I interviewed her in Colonia Popular, Mexicali, or which were revealed in subsequent conversations with her. "Lilia" (apseudonym) invited me to Salinas while she was cutting le…
Beyond Regulation: The Informal Economy in Latin America; Contrapunto: The Informal Sector Debate in Latin America:Beyond Regulation: The Informal Economy in Latin America.;Contrapunto: The Informal S…
We seek work where we can: A comparison of patterns of transnational outmigration from a rancho in Jalisco and of internal migration into a Mexicali squatter settlement
(1993). We seek work where we can: A comparison of patterns of transnational outmigration from a rancho in Jalisco and of internal migration into a Mexicali squatter settlement. Journal of Borderlands Studies: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 33-58
Beyond Regulation: The Informal Economy in Latin America; Contrapunto: The Informal Sector Debate in Latin America
Beyond Regulation: The Informal Economy in Latin America. VICTOR E. TOKMAN (editor). Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1992. viii + 295 pp. $38.00 (cloth). ISBN 1–55587–318–9. Contrapunto: The Informal Sector Debate in Latin America. CATHY A. RAKOWSKI (editor). Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. xi + 336 pp. $21.95 (paper), $64.00 (cloth). ISBN‐0‐7914‐1906‐1, ISBN 0‐7914‐1905‐3
Theoretical Approaches to Mexican Wage Labor Migration
The author reviews theoretical approaches to the study of both internal and international migration in Mexico. (ANNOTATION)
What Determines Where Transnational Labor Migrants Go? Modifications in Migration Theories
Three theories that purport to explain where migrants go are set forth, then examined for explanatory validity using data acquired from a study of a relatively affluent rancho in the state of Jalisco, Mexico. The theories include the immigration market, the stage migration, and the network-mediated chain migration theories. It is found that the network mediated migration theory, with modifications including a movement from bilocational to multilo…
Deciding to be Legal: A Maya Community in Houston:Deciding to be Legal: A Maya Community in Houston
Deciding to be Legal: A Maya Community in Houston
Deciding to be Legal: A Maya Community in Houston. Jacqieline Maríahagan Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 1994. xx + 200pp. $44.95 (cloth) $16.95 (paper). ISBN 1‐56639‐256X, ISBN 1‐56639‐257‐8
Cultures of Unemployment: A Comparative Look at Long-Term Unemployment and Urban Poverty
Cultures of Unemployment:. Comparative Look at Long-Term Unemployment and Urban Poverty. Godfried Engbersen. Kess Schuyt. Jaap Timmer and Frans Van Waarden .1993. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 277 pages
Reconstructing Lives, Recapturing Meaning: Refugee Identity, Gender, and Culture Change. Linda A. Camino and Ruth M. Krulfeld
Rape for Profit: Trafficking of Nepali Girls and Women to India's Brothels
Knowledge for What and for Whom
Little Brazil
Maxine L. Margolis. Little Brazil: An Ethnography of Brazilian Immigrants in New York City. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. 329 pp
The Mexican Outsiders: A Community History of Marginalization and Discrimination
The Mexican Outsiders:. Community History of Marginalization and Discrimination. Martha Menchaca. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. 250 pp
Weak Ties, Strong Ties: Network Principles in Mexican Migration
Five network principles are elaborated from literature on Mexícan immigrants and from research that I conducted on immigration from a rancho in Jalisco state to a variety of destinations within the United States. These principles are, first, that networks are multilocal, encompassing a number of geographical destinations. The importance of destinations, however, may change over time. Second, the anchoring points at any given geographical location…
Micro‐, Meso‐, and macropatterns of women's migration to Colonia Popular, Mexicali, Baja California
This study of women's migration to Colonia Popular in Mexicali, when compared to women's migration to the city and state as a whole, shows that the proportions of internal migrants from various states of origin may differ in a specific colonia (microlevel analysis) as compared to the city in which that colonia is located (mesolevel analysis), and as compared to the state in which that city is located (macrolevel analysis). Network‐mediated migrat…
Undocumented Immigration to California: 1980-1993
Approaches to Understanding the Position of Women Workers in the Informal Sector
Although many studies of the informal economy tend to be gender-blind, being male or female affects one's movements, possibilities, and career trajectories in the informal sector. Partly because of societal, cultural, and familial patriarchal constraints, women often constitute an especially vulnerable, superexploitable labor force (Safa, 1995). Women in the informal sector may be married or single heads of household. As women married to male hea…
Anti-immigrant Sentiment and the Problem of Reproduction/Maintenance in Mexican Immigration to the United States
This article explores the links between 1) the growing militarization of the US-Mexico border; 2) state legislation such as California's Proposition 187 designed to deny undocumented workers and their non-citizen wives and children state-funded medical, educational, and other social services; 3) the call by some sectors of the population to deny US citizenship to children born in the US to undocumented immigrants, but in most cases also to legall…
Reflexive Ethnography: A Guide to Researching Selves and Others
Reflexive Ethnography:. Guide to Researching Selves and Others. Charlotte Aull Davies. New York: Routledge, 1999.257 pp
Maquiladora Cousins
This is a short story about four young women who went to work in the Mexicali foreign‐owned assembly plants (maquiladora), told from the point of view of one of them. Two are composite characters; all live in the colonia (district), I call “Colonia Popular.” Their stories are not untypical of the young maquiladora workers along the northern Mexican border. The phenomena of relatives networking each other into work sites is also common. Despite th…
Pharaonic Circumcision Under Patriarchy and Breast Augmentation Under Phallocentric Capitalism: Similarities and Differences
In this article, the author discusses the similarities and differences between Pharaonic circumcision and reinfibulation and breast augmentation under systems of male dominance and female subordination. Despite the medical problems associated with each, women choose to be reinfibulated or have breast implants. There are systemic reasons associated with male dominance—in the case of reinfibulation, patriarchy and polygamy, and in the case of breas…
Images of the U.S.‐Mexico border: Voices from a Rancho in Jalisco
There are heterogeneous images of the U.S.‐Mexican border among residents of a rancho in Jalisco I interviewed in the 1989 to 1990 period. These images reflect not only the history of a community with high rates of outmigration to the United States, but personal experiences of crossing the border, or being the wife and mother of recurrent immigrants, most of whom are undocumented. Some of the images are conditioned by representations beamed to th…
Under Stress: Guatemalan and Salvadoran Migrations
James Loucky and Marilyn M. Moors (eds.) The Maya Diaspora: Guatemalan Roots, New American Lives (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000). 263 pp. Gabriele Kohpahl Voices of Guatemalan Women in Los Angeles: Understanding Their Immigration (New York: Garland, 1998). 149 pp. Nora Hamilton and Norma Stoltz Chinchilla Seeking Community in a Global City: Guatemalan and Salvadorans in LosAngeles (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001). 292 p…
Wage-Labor Migration and Class in Jalisco and the United States
U.S. markets have been envisioned as split (Bonacich, 1972), dual (Piore, 1986; 1979), segmented (Edwards, Reich, and Gordon, 1975), and more recently, composed of downgraded versus dynamic sectors (Sassen, 1998). Common to all these conceptions is the idea that markets in advanced capitalist societies tend to be (at a minimum) two-tiered, with the lower tier occupied by poor, mainly unskilled, semiskilled, and deskilled (Braverman, 1974) laborer…
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