The Mexican-American Border Region
Author: Raul A. Fernandez
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780268013769
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Author: Raul A. Fernandez
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780268013769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark Lusk
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789400793705
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe U.S.-Mexico Border Region is among the poorest geographical areas in the United States. The region has been long characterized by dual development, poor infrastructure, weak schools, health disparities and low-wage employment. More recently, the region has been affected by the violence associated with a drug and crime war in Mexico. The premise of this book is that the U.S.-Mexico Border Region is subject to systematic oppression and that the so-called social pathologies that we see in the region are by-products of social and economic injustice in the form of labor exploitation, environmental racism, immigration militarism, institutional sexism and discrimination, health inequities, a political economy based on low-wage labor, and the globalization of labor and capital. The chapters address a variety of examples of injustice in the areas of environment, health disparity, migration unemployment, citizenship, women and gender violence, mental health, and drug violence. The book proposes a pathway to development.
Author: Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2017-04-11
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 0816535159
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"One of the most complete collections of essays on U.S.-Mexico border studies"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Lawrence A. Herzog
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780292790537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book embraces an emerging paradox of human geography: the growth of cities along international boundaries. For many years the world system was ordered in such a way that international boundaries remained essentially free of human settlement. In the last three decades, however, the axioms of traditional geopolitical organization have been shattered; in a number of areas in the world, including the United States-Mexico, United States-Canada, and western European border regions, boundaries have come to house large-scale cities. -- From Preface (page xi).
Author: Laura Velasco Ortiz
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2011-03-18
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1592139094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery day, 40,000 commuters cross the U.S. Mexico border at Tijuana San Diego to go to work. Untold numbers cross illegally. Since NAFTA was signed into law, the border has become a greater obstacle for people moving between countries. Transnational powers have exerted greater control over the flow of goods, services, information, and people. Mexican Voices of the Border Region examines the flow of people, commercial traffic, and the development of relationships across this border. Through first-person narratives, Laura Velasco Ortiz and Oscar F. Contreras show that since NAFTA, Tijuana has become a dynamic and significant place for both nations in terms of jobs and residents. The authors emphasize that the border itself has different meanings whether one crosses it frequently or not at all. The interviews probe into matters of race, class, gender, ethnicity, place, violence, and political economy as well as the individual's sense of agency.
Author: Paul Ganster
Publisher: SCERP and IRSC publications
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9780925613097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Ganster
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780742553361
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSystematically exploring the dynamic interface between Mexico and the United States, this comprehensive survey considers the historical development, current politics, society, economy, and daily life of the border region. Now fully updated and revised, the book analyzes the economic cycles and social movements from the 1880s that created this distinctive borderlands region and propelled it into the twenty-first century and a globalizing world. Richly illustrated with photographs, maps, and tables, the book concludes with an analysis of key borderlands issues that range from the environment to migration to national security.
Author: C. J. Alvarez
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2019-10-22
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 147731900X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the boundary surveys of the 1850s to the ever-expanding fences and highway networks of the twenty-first century, Border Land, Border Water examines the history of the construction projects that have shaped the region where the United States and Mexico meet. Tracing the accretion of ports of entry, boundary markers, transportation networks, fences and barriers, surveillance infrastructure, and dams and other river engineering projects, C. J. Alvarez advances a broad chronological narrative that captures the full life cycle of border building. He explains how initial groundbreaking in the nineteenth century transitioned to unbridled faith in the capacity to control the movement of people, goods, and water through the use of physical structures. By the 1960s, however, the built environment of the border began to display increasingly obvious systemic flaws. More often than not, Alvarez shows, federal agencies in both countries responded with more construction—“compensatory building” designed to mitigate unsustainable policies relating to immigration, black markets, and the natural world. Border Land, Border Water reframes our understanding of how the border has come to look and function as it does and is essential to current debates about the future of the US-Mexico divide.
Author: Paul Ganster
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2021-03-10
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1538131811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive survey systematically explores the dynamic historic and contemporary interface between Mexico and the United States along the shared 1,954-mile international land boundary. Now fully updated and revised, the book provides an overview of the history of the region and traces the economic cycles and social movements from the 1880s through the second decade of the twenty-first century. The border region shares characteristics of both nations while maintaining an internal social and economic coherence that transcends its divisive international boundary. The authors conclude with an in-depth analysis of key contemporary issues. These include industrial development and manufacturing, bilateral trade, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, rapid urbanization, border culture, population and migration issues, environmental crisis and climate change, Native Americans, cooperation and conflict at the border, drug trafficking and violence, the border wall and security, populist national leaders and the border, and the Covid-19 pandemic at the border. They also place the border in its global context, examining it as a region caught between the developed and developing world and highlighting the continued importance of borders in a rapidly globalizing world. Richly illustrated with photographs, maps, charts, and up-to-date statistical tables, this book is an invaluable resource for all those interested in borderlands and U.S.-Mexican relations.
Author: Oscar J‡quez Mart’nez
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1994-05
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780816514144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks at life on the Mexican border, including the ethnicity, attitudes, and place of residence of those who live there, and how they interact with other residents