We interviewed women who are resident in the regions that will be affected by the Interoceanic Corridor infrastructure project.
Their lives will be affected either through the modernization of the railway line, the construction of the future industrial parks or through natural resource extraction such as water and gravel from their lands in order to supply the planned development areas.
The level of negative impacts they experienced or feared different significantly. Some of them live very close to the current trainline and therefore face eviction and the possible loss of their homes.
We have interviewed 43 women from the southern Mexican states of Oaxaca (25) and Veracruz (18). (Date: October 2021)
AGE
Their ages ranged from 22 to 67.
ETHNICITY
PROFESSION
Women had a very broad range of professions, including: school, university and further education teacher; voluntary and public sector worker; business owner; informal trader; unpaid home maker; graphic designer and artist; engineer; confectioner; cleaner; hair dresser; administrator; architect and solicitor. Some were students.
This website is part of the research project “Gender Violence and Security in the Interoceanic Industrial Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec: A Critical Examination of Policies and Practices”, and has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 844176.
