On the rim of Mexico
Subtitle: encounters of the rich and poor
By: Ramón Eduardo Ruiz.
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Mexicans -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Ethnic identity; Mexicans -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions; Mexicans -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Economic conditions; United States -- Relations -- Mexico; Mexico -- Relations -- United States; Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions; Mexican-American Border Region -- Economic conditions
Description: On the Rim of Mexico addresses the ties and asymmetries across the U.S.-Mexico border, from Tijuana/San Diego to Matamoros/Brownsville. Based on author Ramon Eduardo Ruiz's extensive research, travels, remembrances, and first-hand interviews with the people on the Mexican side, the book probes the history, economics, and customs that have shaped this region today.

While the author considers many timely issues (the impact of drug trafficking, legal and illegal immigration, assembly plants and the global economy, and the ecological disaster in the making), the book is also an examination of the borderlands themselves: what they are, how they came to be, and salient aspects of life in this region of the world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-245) and index.