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Drug Violence in Mexico Report 2011

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2012 Visiting Scholar

The Trans-Border Institute is pleased to welcome Visiting Scholar Constanza Sánchez Avilés. Ms. Avilés is a PhD candidate in international relations at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain. Since 2007 she has worked as a teaching assistant at the ​​Department of Public International Law and International Relations at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where she completed her master thesis, entitled "The US war on drugs in Latin America. A study of new forms of hegemonic action".  Ms. Avilés has been a visiting scholar at the University of Miami in 2010 and did fieldwork on drug policies in Peru 2009. If you would like to contact Ms. Avilés please email transborder@sandiego.edu.   

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Recent Publication

Modern Day Slavery In U.S. – Mexican Territory: Human Trafficking at the Border

October 4, 2010

Broadly speaking, human trafficking pertains to the use of a human being(s) as a commodity for the profit of other(s). Therefore, human trafficking is widely considered to be a modern-day form of slavery where, in the same way that merchandise is appropriated and transported across territory, whether nationally or trans-nationally, human beings are obtained and retained against their will for the financial benefit of others.

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TBI Justice in Mexico Project

Justice in MexicoA research project by the USD Trans-Border Institute (TBI) dedicated to the rule of law and justice reform in Mexico. The TBI Justice in Mexico Project coordinates and disseminates research on three major components of the rule of law: (1) order; (2) accountability and; (3) Equal access to justice.

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