Border States Of Mexico

Author : Julio A. Lemos-Espinal
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781623493066

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Amphibians and Reptiles of the US–Mexico Border States/Anfibios y reptiles de los estados de la frontera México–Estados Unidos by Julio A. Lemos-Espinal Pdf

In the first bilingual work on the reptiles and amphibians of the US–Mexico border, top herpetologists come together to describe the herpetofauna of the states of this region, which includes more than 600 species of toads, frogs, salamanders, turtles, sea turtles, alligators, lizards, snakes, and sea snakes that are found along the almost 2,000-mile border between the two countries. Each chapter is devoted to one state—four in the US (California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas) and six in Mexico (Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas)—with text in both English and Spanish. The chapters contain an introduction to the area, a review of the research, a sketch of the state’s physiography, and a description of the species present as well as the pertinent conservation issues they face. A color photo gallery includes images of nearly all species. Almost 40 percent of the featured native species are shared between the US and Mexico, reminding us that animals depend on the integrity of natural landscapes and proving the need for a comprehensive, bilingual reference to help lead a shared effort in the management and conservation of the borderlands.

Author : Daniel D. Arreola
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1994-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0816514410

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The Mexican Border Cities by Daniel D. Arreola Pdf

From Matamoros to Tijuana, Mexican border cities have long evoked for their neighbors to the north images of cheap tourist playgrounds and, more recently, industrial satellites of American industry. These sensationalized and simplified perceptions fail to convey the complexity and diversity of urban form and function—and of cultural personality—that characterize these places. The Mexican Border Cities draws on extensive field research to examine eighteen settlements along the 2,000-mile border, ranging from towns of less than 10,000 people to dynamic metropolises of nearly a million. The authors chronicle the cities' growth and compare their urban structure, analyzing them in terms of tourist districts, commercial landscapes, residential areas, and industrial and transportation quarters. Arreola and Curtis contend that, despite their proximity to the United States, the border cities are fundamentally Mexican places, as distinguished by their cultural landscapes, including town plan, land-use pattern, and building fabric. Their study, richly illustrated with over 75 maps and photographs, offers a provocative and insightful interpretation of the geographic anatomy and personality of these fascinating—and rapidly changing—communities.

Author : Marie T. Mora,Alberto Dávila
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816548576

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Labor Market Issues along the U.S.-Mexico Border by Marie T. Mora,Alberto Dávila Pdf

Five million workers are employed in a variety of settings along the U.S.–Mexico border, yet labor market outcomes on each side often differ. U.S. workers tend to have low earnings and high unemployment compared with the rest of the country, while workers on the Mexican side of the border are often more prosperous than those in the interior. This book sheds new light on these socioeconomic differentials, along with other labor market issues affecting both sides of the border. The contributors take up issues that dominate the current discourse— migration, trade, gender, education, earnings, and employment. They analyze labor conditions and their relationship to immigration, and also provide insight into income levels and population concentrations, the relative prosperity of Mexico’s border region, and NAFTA’s impact on trade and living conditions. Drawing on demographic, economic, and labor data, the chapters treat topics ranging from historical context to directions for future research. They cover the importance of trade to both the United States and Mexico, salary differentials, the determinants of wages among Mexican immigrant women on the U.S. side, and the net effect of Mexican migration on the public coffers in U.S. border states. The book’s concluding policy prescriptions are geared toward improving conditions on the U.S. side without dampening the success of workers in Mexico. Written to be equally accessible to social scientists, policy makers, and concerned citizens, this book deals with issues often overlooked in national policy discussions and can help readers better understand real-life conditions along the border. It dispels misconceptions regarding labor interdependence between the two countries while offering policy recommendations useful for improving the economic and social well-being of border residents.

Author : Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816543854

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Border Visions by Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez Pdf

The U.S.-Mexico border region is home to anthropologist Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez. Into these pages he pours nearly half a century of searching and finding answers to the Mexican experience in the southwestern United States. He describes and analyzes the process, as generation upon generation of Mexicans moved north and attempted to create an identity or sense of cultural space and place. In today’s border fences he also sees barriers to how Mexicans understand themselves and how they are fundamentally understood. From prehistory to the present, Vélez-Ibáñez traces the intense bumping among Native Americans, Spaniards, and Mexicans, as Mesoamerican populations and ideas moved northward. He demonstrates how cultural glue is constantly replenished by strengthening family ties that reach across both sides of the border. The author describes ways in which Mexicans have resisted and accommodated the dominant culture by creating communities and by forming labor unions, voluntary associations, and cultural movements. He analyzes the distribution of sadness, or overrepresentation of Mexicans in poverty, crime, illness, and war, and shows how that sadness is balanced by creative expressions of literature and art, especially mural art, in the ongoing search for space and place. Here is a book for the nineties and beyond, a book that relates to NAFTA, to complex questions of immigration, and to the expanding population of Mexicans in the U.S.-Mexico border region and other parts of the country. An important new volume for social science, humanities, and Latin American scholars, Border Visions will also attract general readers for its robust narrative and autobiographical edge. For all readers, the book points to new ways of seeing borders, whether they are visible walls of brick and stone or less visible, infinitely more powerful barriers of the mind.

Author : Leonidas Le Cenci Hamilton
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0469578416

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Border States of Mexico: Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua and Durango by Leonidas Le Cenci Hamilton Pdf

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Author : Alan Weisman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Mexican-American Border Region
ISBN : 0816512310

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La Frontera by Alan Weisman Pdf

Weisman and Dusard bring alive the people and geography of the U.S.-Mexican border, as well as the issues that divide each nation. 48 black-and-white photographs.

Author : Kevin R. Johnson,Bernard Trujillo
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816505593

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Immigration Law and the U.S.–Mexico Border by Kevin R. Johnson,Bernard Trujillo Pdf

Americans from radically different political persuasions agree on the need to “fix” the “broken” US immigration laws to address serious deficiencies and improve border enforcement. In Immigration Law and the US–Mexico Border, Kevin Johnson and Bernard Trujillo focus on what for many is at the core of the entire immigration debate in modern America: immigration from Mexico. In clear, reasonable prose, Johnson and Trujillo explore the long history of discrimination against US citizens of Mexican ancestry in the United States and the current movement against “illegal aliens”—persons depicted as not deserving fair treatment by US law. The authors argue that the United States has a special relationship with Mexico by virtue of sharing a 2,000-mile border and a “land-grab of epic proportions” when the United States “acquired” nearly two-thirds of Mexican territory between 1836 and 1853. The authors explain US immigration law and policy in its many aspects—including the migration of labor, the place of state and local regulation over immigration, and the contributions of Mexican immigrants to the US economy. Their objective is to help thinking citizens on both sides of the border to sort through an issue with a long, emotional history that will undoubtedly continue to inflame politics until cooler, and better-informed, heads can prevail. The authors conclude by outlining possibilities for the future, sketching a possible movement to promote social justice. Great for use by students of immigration law, border studies, and Latino studies, this book will also be of interest to anyone wondering about the general state of immigration law as it pertains to our most troublesome border.

Author : Raul A. Fernandez
Publisher : Notre Dame [Ind.] : University of Notre Dame Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039492769

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The United States-Mexico Border by Raul A. Fernandez Pdf

Author : David J. Danelo
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811740227

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The Border by David J. Danelo Pdf

Thoughtful investigative report about a central issue of the 2008 presidential race that examines the border in human terms through a cast of colorful characters. Asks and answers the core questions: Should we close the border? Is a fence or wall the answer? Is the U.S. government capable of fully securing the border? Reviews the political, economic, social, and cultural aspects and discusses NAFTA, immigration policy, border security, and other local, regional, national, and international issues.

Author : Paul Ganster,Kimberly Collins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538131817

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The U.S.-Mexican Border Today by Paul Ganster,Kimberly Collins Pdf

This 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 : David E. Lorey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : International economic relations
ISBN : UCSD:31822005065537

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United States-Mexico Border Statistics Since 1900 by David E. Lorey Pdf

The first comprehensive collection of historical statistics on the society and economy of the United States-Mexico border region. Quantitative data on all major aspects of life in the Mexican North and U.S. Southwest are organized into thematic chapters for use in studying the historical evolution of the region. Includes interpretive essays on security and interdependence, prices and wages, and the maquila industry.

Author : Christina Leza
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816537006

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Divided Peoples by Christina Leza Pdf

The border region of the Sonoran Desert, which spans southern Arizona in the United States and northern Sonora, Mexico, has attracted national and international attention. But what is less discussed in national discourses is the impact of current border policies on the Native peoples of the region. There are twenty-six tribal nations recognized by the U.S. federal government in the southern border region and approximately eight groups of Indigenous peoples in the United States with historical ties to Mexico—the Yaqui, the O’odham, the Cocopah, the Kumeyaay, the Pai, the Apaches, the Tiwa (Tigua), and the Kickapoo. Divided Peoples addresses the impact border policies have on traditional lands and the peoples who live there—whether environmental degradation, border patrol harassment, or the disruption of traditional ceremonies. Anthropologist Christina Leza shows how such policies affect the traditional cultural survival of Indigenous peoples along the border. The author examines local interpretations and uses of international rights tools by Native activists, counterdiscourse on the U.S.-Mexico border, and challenges faced by Indigenous border activists when communicating their issues to a broader public. Through ethnographic research with grassroots Indigenous activists in the region, the author reveals several layers of division—the division of Indigenous peoples by the physical U.S.-Mexico border, the divisions that exist between Indigenous perspectives and mainstream U.S. perspectives regarding the border, and the traditionalist/nontraditionalist split among Indigenous nations within the United States. Divided Peoples asks us to consider the possibilities for challenging settler colonialism both in sociopolitical movements and in scholarship about Indigenous peoples and lands.

Author : Leonidas Le Cenci Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Mexico
ISBN : UCAL:$B28617

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Border States of Mexico: Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua and Durango by Leonidas Le Cenci Hamilton Pdf

Author : Kathleen Staudt,Tony Payan,Z. Anthony Kruszewski
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816548385

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Human Rights along the U.S.–Mexico Border by Kathleen Staudt,Tony Payan,Z. Anthony Kruszewski Pdf

Much political oratory has been devoted to safeguarding America’s boundary with Mexico, but policies that militarize the border and criminalize immigrants have overshadowed the region’s widespread violence against women, the increase in crossing deaths, and the lingering poverty that spurs people to set out on dangerous northward treks. This book addresses those concerns by focusing on gender-based violence, security, and human rights from the perspective of women who live with both violence and poverty. From the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico, scholars from both sides of the 2,000-mile border reflect expertise in disciplines ranging from international relations to criminal justice, conveying a more complex picture of the region than that presented in other studies. Initial chapters offer an overview of routine sexual assaults on women migrants, the harassment of Central American immigrants at the hands of authorities and residents, corruption and counterfeiting along the border, and near-death experiences of border crossers. Subsequent chapters then connect analysis with solutions in the form of institutional change, social movement activism, policy reform, and the spread of international norms that respect human rights as well as good governance. These chapters show how all facets of the border situation—globalization, NAFTA, economic inequality, organized crime, political corruption, rampant patriarchy—promote gendered violence and other expressions of hyper-masculinity. They also show that U.S. immigration policy exacerbates the problems of border violence—in marked contrast to the border policies of European countries. By focusing on women’s everyday experiences in order to understand human security issues, these contributions offer broad-based alternative approaches and solutions that address everyday violence and inattention to public safety, inequalities, poverty, and human rights. And by presenting a social and democratic international feminist framework to address these issues, they offer the opportunity to transform today’s security debate in constructive ways.

Author : Leonidas Le Cenci Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Mexico
ISBN : UOM:39015027974966

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Border States of Mexico by Leonidas Le Cenci Hamilton Pdf