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Author : Thomas Torrans
Publisher : TCU Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 087565231X
"Forging the Tortilla Curtain reveals how the region got to be that way."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Thomas Torrans
Publisher : TCU Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0875652573
Explores the various ways that life in the Mexican-American borderlands has been reflected in fiction and film, as well as in the corridos--the ballads and other songs celebrating the lives and struggles of borderlands people.
Author : T. C. Boyle
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408826768
When Delaney Mossbacher knocks down a Mexican pedestrian, he neither reports the accident nor takes his victim to hospital. Instead the man accepts $20 and limps back to poverty and his pregnant 17-year-old wife, leaving Delaney to return to his privileged life in California. But these two men are fated against each other, as Delaney attempts to clear the land of the illegal immigrants who he thinks are turning his state park into a ghetto, and a boiling pot of racism and prejudice threatens to spill over.
Author : Kryštof Kozák
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Free trade
ISBN : 3631599714
The book analyzes the concept of asymmetry in international relations on the example of United States and Mexico. This bilateral relation is introduced within wider historical, economic and political context. It also includes a case study on perceptions of Mexico in U.S. media. The study focuses on critical issues in bilateral relations within the context of asymmetric relations. Economic integration under North American Free Trade Agreement, extensive migration from Mexico to the U.S. and the issue of drug-trafficking and drug-control efforts are analyzed in this respect. The concluding chapter uses the findings to conceptualize asymmetric relations and presents possible applications of the key findings to complex bilateral issues.
Author : Armando Navarro
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780759114746
This exciting new volume from Armando Navarro offers the most current and comprehensive political history of the Mexicano experience in the United States. He examines in-depth topics such as American political culture, electoral politics, demography, and organizational development. Viewing Mexicanos today as an occupied and colonized people, he calls for the formation of a new movement to reinvigorate the struggle for resistance and change among Mexicanos. Navarro envisions a new political and cultural landscape as the dominant Latino population 'Re-Mexicanizes' the U.S. into a more multicultural and multiethnic society. This book will be a valuable resource for political and social activists and teaching tool for political theory, Latino politics, ethnic and minority politics, race relations in the United States, and social movements.
Author : Steven W. Bender
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780814723227
Mexico and the United States exist in a symbiotic relationship: Mexico frequently provides the United States with cheap labor, illegal goods, and, for criminal offenders, a refuge from the law. In turn, the U.S. offers Mexican laborers the American dream: the possibility of a better livelihood through hard work. To supply each other’s demands, Americans and Mexicans have to cross their shared border from both sides. Despite this relationship, U.S. immigration reform debates tend to be security-focused and center on the idea of menacing Mexicans heading north to steal abundant American resources. Further, Congress tends to approach reform unilaterally, without engaging with Mexico or other feeder countries, and, disturbingly, without acknowledging problematic southern crossings that Americans routinely make into Mexico. In Run for the Border, Steven W. Bender offers a framework for a more comprehensive border policy through a historical analysis of border crossings, both Mexico to U.S. and U.S. to Mexico. In contrast to recent reform proposals, this book urges reform as the product of negotiation and implementation by cross-border accord; reform that honors the shared economic and cultural legacy of the U.S. and Mexico. Covering everything from the history of Anglo crossings into Mexico to escape law authorities, to vice tourism and retirement in Mexico, to today’s focus on Mexican border-crossing immigrants and drug traffickers, Bender takes lessons from the past 150 years to argue for more explicit and compassionate cross-border cooperation. Steeped in several disciplines, Run for the Border is a blend of historical, cultural, and legal perspectives, as well as those from literature and cinema, that reflect Bender’s cultural background and legal expertise.
Author : Oscar J‡quez Mart’nez
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0816525579
ÒU.S. residents are largely unaware that Mexicans also view their northern border with concern, and at times even alarm. Border communities, such as Ciudad Ju‡rez and Tijuana, have long been subjected to heavy criticism from Mexico City and other interior areas for their close ties to the United States, a country viewed with apprehension and suspicion by the Mexican citizenry.Ó Oscar Mart’nezÕs words may come as a surprise to those who associate the U.S. southern border with banditry, racial strife, illegal migration, drug smuggling, and official corruptionÑall attributed to Mexico. In Troublesome Border, now revised to reflect the dramatic changes over the last two decades, a distinguished scholar and long-time resident of the border area addresses these and other problems that have caused increasing concern to federal governments on both sides of the border. This second edition of Troublesome Border has been updated and revised to cover dramatic developments since the bookÕs first publication in 1988 that have once again transformed the region in fundamental ways. Martinez includes new information on migration and drugs, including the extraordinary rise of violence traced largely to the rampant illegal drug trade; the devastating effects of U.S. Border Patrol ÒblockadesÓ that have resulted in thousands of deaths; and the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Author : John Davenport
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Mexican-American Border Region
ISBN : 9780791078334
Looks at the history of the boundary between the United States and Mexico.
Author : Ulf Engel,Paul Nugent
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004178335
Space has been reintroduced as an analytical category to the humanities and social sciences in the early 1990s. African Studies is one of the fields of knowledge production where the so-called spatial turn has proved to be extremely fruitful. The continent provides ample evidence for complex processes of deterritorialisation (migration, globalisation, sub-nationalisms) and reterritorialisation (new regionalisms, processes of bordering, etc.). These dialectical processes are driven by a variety of actors: political elites, multinational companies, warlords, donor governments, local traders, international NGOs, etc. As a result substantial parts of Africa witness the emergence of new regimes of territoriality: re-ordered states, transnational and sub-national entities, new localities and transborder formations. This volume brings together contributions from anthropology, history, geography and political science.
Author : Jeff Guinn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982128876
"From bestselling author Jeff Guinn, the dramatic story of how U.S.-Mexico border tensions erupted into open warfare in 1916, as a U.S. military expedition crossed the border to try to capture Mexican guerrilla Pancho Villa -- a military incursion whose effects still haunt the border region to this day"--
Author : Oscar J. Martínez
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816550845
“U.S. residents are largely unaware that Mexicans also view their northern border with concern, and at times even alarm. Border communities, such as Ciudad Juárez and Tijuana, have long been subjected to heavy criticism from Mexico City and other interior areas for their close ties to the United States, a country viewed with apprehension and suspicion by the Mexican citizenry.” Oscar Martínez’s words may come as a surprise to those who associate the U.S. southern border with banditry, racial strife, illegal migration, drug smuggling, and official corruption—all attributed to Mexico. In Troublesome Border, now revised to reflect the dramatic changes over the last two decades, a distinguished scholar and long-time resident of the border area addresses these and other problems that have caused increasing concern to federal governments on both sides of the border. This second edition of Troublesome Border has been updated and revised to cover dramatic developments since the book’s first publication in 1988 that have once again transformed the region in fundamental ways. Martinez includes new information on migration and drugs, including the extraordinary rise of violence traced largely to the rampant illegal drug trade; the devastating effects of U.S. Border Patrol “blockades” that have resulted in thousands of deaths; and the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Author : Justin Akers Chacn,Mike Davis
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781608460526
No One Is Illegal debunks the leading ideas behind the often-violent right-wing backlash against immigrants.
Author : Lee Stacy
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 972 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0761474021
Examines the history and culture of Mexico and its relations with its neighbors to the north and east from the Spanish Conquest to the current presidency of Vicente Fox.
Author : P. Readman,C. Radding,C. Bryant
Publisher : Springer
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137320582
Covering two hundred years, this groundbreaking book brings together essays on borderlands by leading experts in the modern history of the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia to offer the first historical study of borderlands with a global reach.
Author : Joseph Allen Stout
Publisher : TCU Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0875652581
Whether any plan to enter Mexico was carried out or whether the leaders were U.S. citizens was unimportant to the Mexican government. To Mexico the significance was that the groups recruited, organized, and plotted their entradas from the United States in full view of the U.S. government even as newspapers in both countries published dozens of articles about the endeavors.".
