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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781006103321

Titolo

Cities and Citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico Border [[electronic resource] ] : The Paso del Norte Metropolitan Region / / edited by Kathleen Staudt, César M. Fuentes, Julia E. Monárrez Fragoso

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010

ISBN

1-282-99267-8

0-230-11291-9

9786612992674

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXI, 250 p.)

Disciplina

972/.16

Soggetti

International relations

Latin America-Politics and gover

Ethnology-Latin America

Migration

Political science

International Relations

Latin American Politics

Latin American Culture

Political Science

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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?.

Sommario/riassunto

The volume is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing an enormously significant region in ways that clarify the kind of everyday life and work that is generated in a major urban global manufacturing site amid insecurity, inequality, and a virtually absent state.