"Caught between violent partners and the bureaucratic complications of the US Immigration system, many immigrant women are particularly vulnerable to abuse. For two years, Roberta Villalón volunteered at a nonprofit group that offers free legal services to mostly undocumented immigrants who had been victims of abuse. Her innovative study of Latina survivors of domestic violence explores the complexities at the intersection of immigration ..."
ViolenceAgainstLatinaImmigrants Citizenship, Inequality, andCommunity (Hardback) by Roberta Villalon Hardcover, 207 Pages, Published 2010 by Nyu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-8823-3, ISBN: 0-8147-8823-8
""A meaningful documentation of the ways in which structural and cultural conditions in current immigration and violence against women laws in the United States reinforce the hierarchies and intersections of race, class, and heterosexuality ..."
Violenceand Activism at the Border Gender, Fear, and Everyday Life in Ciudad Juarez (Inter-America Series) by Kathleen A. Staudt Kindle, 212 Pages, Published 2008 by University Of Texas Press Kindle Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-292-77343-1, ISBN: 0-292-77343-9