Cities and citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico border : the Paso del Norte metropolitan region

Cities and citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico border : the Paso del Norte metropolitan region /

"At the center of the 2,000 mile U.S.-Mexico border, a sprawling transnational urban space has mushroomed into a metropolitan region with over two million people whose livelihoods depend on global manufacturing, cross-border trade, and border control jobs. Our volume advances knowledge on urban...

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Other Authors: Staudt, Kathleen A. (Editor), Fuentes Flores, César M. (Editor), Monárrez Fragoso, Julia Estela (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Globalization > Mexican-American Border Region > Case studies.
Globalization > Mexico > Ciudad Juárez.
Mexican-American Border Region > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects > Case studies.
Mexican-American Border Region > Social conditions > Case studies.
Mexican-American Border Region > Economic conditions > Case studies.
Mexican-American Border Region > Politics and government > Case studies.
Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) > Social conditions.
Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) > Economic conditions.
Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) > Politics and government.
Case studies.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Preface : Living and working in a global manufacturing border urban space : a paradigm for the future? / Kathleen Staudt
  • Globalization, transborder networks, and U.S.-Mexico border cities / César M. Fuentes and Sergio Peña
  • Death in a transnational metropolitan region / Julia E. Monárrez Fragoso
  • The disarticulation of justice : precarious life and cross-border feminicides in the Paso del Norte region / Julia E. Monárrez Fragoso and Cynthia Bejarano
  • Surviving domestic violence in the Paso del Norte border region / Kathleen Staudt and Rosalba Robles Ortega
  • Globalization and its effects on the urban socio-spatial structure of a transfrontier metropolis : El Paso, TX-Ciudad Juárez, Chih.-Sunland-Park, NM / César M. Fuentes and Sergio Peña
  • World-class automotive harnesses and the precariousness of employment in Juárez / Martha Miker Palafox
  • Centering the margins : the transformation of community in colonias on the U.S.-Mexico border / Guillermina Gina Núñez and Georg M. Klamminger
  • Schooling for global competitiveness in the border metropolitan region / Kathleen Staudt and Zulma Y. Méndez
  • Alianza para la Calidad de la Educación and the production of an empty curriculum / Zulma Y. Méndez
  • Crossborder governance in a tristate, binational region / Tony Payan.

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