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It is not easy to conceive an academic research project related to ongoing social problems, where... more It is not easy to conceive an academic research project related to ongoing social problems, where these problems translate into oppressions at all levels. When I first decided to pursue this case study I was not entirely convinced about the direction it was going to take, but thankfully, I was initially oriented towards a clear analysis of repression by my thesis committee chair Dr. Pratyusha Basu. Scholars have discussed the sociological reality of México through an array of countless perspectives. However, Dr. Basu and I worked together to create a strong theoretically oriented research. I also want to thank the rest of my committee: Dr. Maria Cristina Morales, and Dr. Irasema Coronado. Altogether, my thesis committee helped to me expand my sociological, analytical, philosophical and methodological perspectives through theories, history, society, gender, culture, economy, politics and legality. I cannot thank them enough. In addition to my committee, I want to thank my family, especially my mother, for always supporting me and for giving me advice after advice about life in general. I thank my friends from the Master's Program in Sociology at UTEP, as well as those in the United States and in México for believing in my voice and for supporting my ideas. Finally, I thank the activists involved in this research for allowing me into their lives in Ciudad Juárez, a city that has taught the world that tragedy does not have to end good intentions, especially if these are the revolutionary kind.

It is not easy to conceive an academic research project related to ongoing social problems, where... more It is not easy to conceive an academic research project related to ongoing social problems, where these problems translate into oppressions at all levels. When I first decided to pursue this case study I was not entirely convinced about the direction it was going to take, but thankfully, I was initially oriented towards a clear analysis of repression by my thesis committee chair Dr. Pratyusha Basu. Scholars have discussed the sociological reality of México through an array of countless perspectives. However, Dr. Basu and I worked together to create a strong theoretically oriented research. I also want to thank the rest of my committee: Dr. Maria Cristina Morales, and Dr. Irasema Coronado. Altogether, my thesis committee helped to me expand my sociological, analytical, philosophical and methodological perspectives through theories, history, society, gender, culture, economy, politics and legality. I cannot thank them enough. In addition to my committee, I want to thank my family, especially my mother, for always supporting me and for giving me advice after advice about life in general. I thank my friends from the Master's Program in Sociology at UTEP, as well as those in the United States and in México for believing in my voice and for supporting my ideas. Finally, I thank the activists involved in this research for allowing me into their lives in Ciudad Juárez, a city that has taught the world that tragedy does not have to end good intentions, especially if these are the revolutionary kind.

It is not easy to conceive an academic research project related to ongoing social problems, where... more It is not easy to conceive an academic research project related to ongoing social problems, where these problems translate into oppressions at all levels. When I first decided to pursue this case study I was not entirely convinced about the direction it was going to take, but thankfully, I was initially oriented towards a clear analysis of repression by my thesis committee chair Dr. Pratyusha Basu. Scholars have discussed the sociological reality of México through an array of countless perspectives. However, Dr. Basu and I worked together to create a strong theoretically oriented research. I also want to thank the rest of my committee: Dr. Maria Cristina Morales, and Dr. Irasema Coronado. Altogether, my thesis committee helped to me expand my sociological, analytical, philosophical and methodological perspectives through theories, history, society, gender, culture, economy, politics and legality. I cannot thank them enough. In addition to my committee, I want to thank my family, especially my mother, for always supporting me and for giving me advice after advice about life in general. I thank my friends from the Master's Program in Sociology at UTEP, as well as those in the United States and in México for believing in my voice and for supporting my ideas. Finally, I thank the activists involved in this research for allowing me into their lives in Ciudad Juárez, a city that has taught the world that tragedy does not have to end good intentions, especially if these are the revolutionary kind.

It is not easy to conceive an academic research project related to ongoing social problems, where... more It is not easy to conceive an academic research project related to ongoing social problems, where these problems translate into oppressions at all levels. When I first decided to pursue this case study I was not entirely convinced about the direction it was going to take, but thankfully, I was initially oriented towards a clear analysis of repression by my thesis committee chair Dr. Pratyusha Basu. Scholars have discussed the sociological reality of México through an array of countless perspectives. However, Dr. Basu and I worked together to create a strong theoretically oriented research. I also want to thank the rest of my committee: Dr. Maria Cristina Morales, and Dr. Irasema Coronado. Altogether, my thesis committee helped to me expand my sociological, analytical, philosophical and methodological perspectives through theories, history, society, gender, culture, economy, politics and legality. I cannot thank them enough. In addition to my committee, I want to thank my family, especially my mother, for always supporting me and for giving me advice after advice about life in general. I thank my friends from the Master's Program in Sociology at UTEP, as well as those in the United States and in México for believing in my voice and for supporting my ideas. Finally, I thank the activists involved in this research for allowing me into their lives in Ciudad Juárez, a city that has taught the world that tragedy does not have to end good intentions, especially if these are the revolutionary kind.