In contemporary Mexico, AIDS is a disease of migration and modernity. Worldwide AIDS is often argued to be a direct product of neo-liberal policies that have prompted the decentralization and privatization of healthcare. At the same time, structural adjustments related to these changes in...

Systematic patterns of sexual exploitation and abuse have emerged around UN peacekeeping missions over the course of many years. These include, most egregiously, peacekeepers' exchange of UN food supplies or money for sex with young girls and sometimes boys as well as sexual assault. This paper...

Insofar as gender is still so often equated with women alone, the move from Women in Development to Gender in Development has changed very little. Men as a human category have always been present, involved, consulted, obeyed and disobeyed in development work. Yet men as a gendered category in a...

This paper examines the correlation between migration to the United States from Mexico, ethnicity, and changing gender relations among Mexicans on both sides of the international border. For example, the idea that Mexican society is homogenous and static, and therefore that only when they arrive...