Cities and citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico border
Subtitle: the Paso del Norte metropolitan region
By: edited by Kathleen Staudt, Cesar M. Fuentes, Julia Monarrez Fragoso.
Contributors: Staudt, Kathleen A.; Fuentes, César M.; Monárrez Fragoso, Julia Estela.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780230100329
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
Genres: Case studies
Description: "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 space, gender, education, security, and work, focusing on Ciudad Jur̀ez, the export-processing (maquiladora) manufacturing capital of the Americas and the infamous site of femicide and outlier murder rates connected with arms and drug trafficking. Given global economic trends, this transnational urban region is a likely paradigmatic future for other world regions"--Provided by publisher.