Cities and citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico border the Paso del Norte metropolitan region
Title:
Cities and citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico border the Paso del Norte metropolitan region
Author:
Staudt, Kathleen A.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Physical Description:
xxi, 250 p. : ill., maps.
Contents:
section 1. Security and safety in the border region -- section 2. Globalized production, urban space, and public services -- section 3. Living with globalized risks : poverty, immigration and education -- section 4. Toward new governance?.
Abstract:
"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 Jurez, 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.
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