Mexican Voices of the Border Region
Title | Mexican Voices of the Border Region PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Velasco Ortiz |
Publisher | Temple University Press |
Total Pages | 248 |
Release | 2011-03-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781592139088 |
Every 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.
Border People
Title | Border People PDF eBook |
Author | Oscar J‡quez Mart’nez |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | 380 |
Release | 1994-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780816514144 |
Looks 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
The U.S.-Mexican Border Into the Twenty-first Century
Title | The U.S.-Mexican Border Into the Twenty-first Century PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Ganster |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780742553361 |
Systematically 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.
Lives on the Line
Title | Lives on the Line PDF eBook |
Author | Miriam Davidson |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 2000-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780816519989 |
"The twin cities of Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, for years straddled an indistinct border," but with the maquiladora industry, a crackdown against undocumented immigrants, and drug smuggling, "neither Nogales will ever be the same."--Cover.
The Mexican-American Border Region
Title | The Mexican-American Border Region PDF eBook |
Author | Raul A.. Fernandez |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 147 |
Release | 1990-09-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780268013776 |
This blend of border region history and long-term economic and political analysis provides students with an interdisciplinary study of the development of the US-Mexico border area, focusing upon the history of Mexican migration patterns and US interactions in the region.
Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas
Title | Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas PDF eBook |
Author | Michelle Téllez |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | 209 |
Release | 2021-10-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0816542473 |
Near Tijuana, Baja California, the autonomous community of Maclovio Rojas demonstrates what is possible for urban place-based political movements. More than a community, Maclovio Rojas is a women-led social movement that works for economic and political autonomy to address issues of health, education, housing, nutrition, and security. Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas tells the story of the community’s struggle to carve out space for survival and thriving in the shadows of the U.S.-Mexico geopolitical border. This ethnography by Michelle Téllez demonstrates the state’s neglect in providing social services and local infrastructure. This neglect exacerbates the structural violence endemic to the border region—a continuation of colonial systems of power on the urban, rural, and racialized poor. Téllez shows that in creating the community of Maclovio Rojas, residents have challenged prescriptive notions of nation and belonging. Through women’s active participation and leadership, a women’s political subjectivity has emerged—Maclovianas. These border women both contest and invoke their citizenship as they struggle to have their land rights recognized, and they transform traditional political roles into that of agency and responsibility. This book highlights the U.S.-Mexico borderlands as a space of resistance, conviviality, agency, and creative community building where transformative politics can take place. It shows hope, struggle, and possibility in the context of gendered violences of racial capitalism on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border.
The U.S.-Mexican Border Today
Title | The U.S.-Mexican Border Today PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Ganster |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 297 |
Release | 2015-08-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1442231122 |
Systematically 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 provides an overview of the history of the region and then traces the economic cycles and social movements from the 1880s through the beginning of the twenty-first century that created the modern border region, showing how the border shares characteristics of both nations while maintaining an internal coherence that transcends its divisive international boundary. The authors conclude with an in-depth analysis of the key issues of the contemporary borderlands: industrial development and maquiladoras, the North American Free Trade Agreement, rapid urbanization, border culture, demographic and migration issues, the environmental crisis, implications of climate change, Native Americans living near the border, U.S. and Mexican cooperation and conflict at the border, and drug trafficking and violence. 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 and maps and enhanced by up-to-date and accessible statistical tables, this book is an invaluable resource for all those interested in borderlands and U.S.-Mexican relations.