Sharon "Gaby" Grijalva

Gaby Grijalva was a program and research intern at the SISGI Group. She is a graduate of New York University majoring in Economics and Latin American Studies. During her internship, she focused on human rights violations, migration trends and economic development.

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Femicidios: Tambien un problema Americano

Read this post in English ¿Cuánta gente sabe que significa la palabra femicidio o feminicidio? Si buscan en Google la palabra, no encontraran una definición formal, además de las que da Wikipedia.  Estas incluyen desde la perspectiva feministas, que describe el femicidio como asesinatos misóginos, hasta una definicion más amplios, como “todos los homicidios de mujeres, …

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Femicides: Also an American Issue

How many people know what the word femicide or feminicide means? If you google the word, you won’t find a formal definition besides the ones that Wikipedia gives.  These range from the feminist perspective, which describes it as misogynist murders to broader terms such as “all killings of women, regardless of motive or perpetrator status”.  …

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Remesas

Read this post in English La inmigración en los EE.UU. es un tema muy caliente que a menudo se simplifica a una sola palabra: la pobreza. Puede ser cierto que la pobreza es uno de los factores principales que ha aumentado la inmigración a los EE.UU. Sin embargo, muchas veces es demasiado fácil de compilar todos …

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Remittances, Poverty and Development

Immigration in the U.S. is a very hot topic that often gets simplified to one word: poverty.  It can very well be that poverty is one of the key issues that has increased immigration trends to the U.S.  However, it is often too easy to compile all the structural and political problems into one big …

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