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The U.S.-Mexico border directs considerable media attention toward violence and drugs. Usually, this attention is oblivious to gender: whether victims and aggressors are male or female. However, with the shocking rise of femicide—the murder of 370 girls and women from 1993–2003—people began to consider borders as magnets for opportunities and threats to women (Staudt 2008). Olivia Ruiz Marrujo (2009) examines borders, both those dividing the United States. and Mexico and Mexico and Guatemala, as spaces of eroticized sexual violence. In this chapter, we examine women’s experiences with grim, normalized, everyday violence in spatial terms at the Paso del Norte border, a large, two-million person metropolitan region of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and El Paso, Texas, which are immediately adjacent to each other.
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Staudt, K., Ortega, R.R. (2010). Surviving Domestic Violence in the Paso del Norte Border Region. In: Staudt, K., Fuentes, C.M., Fragoso, J.E.M. (eds) Cities and Citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico Border. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230112919_4
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