1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000007125

Autore

Cafiero, Salvatore

Titolo

Questione meridionale e unità nazionale : 1861-1995 / Salvatore Cafiero

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma : NIS, c1996

ISBN

88-430-0386-0

Descrizione fisica

284 p. ; 22 cm.

Collana

Studi superiori NIS , Storia ; 268

Disciplina

945.7091

Soggetti

Questione meridionale

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910975210703321

Autore

Velasco Ortiz M. Laura

Titolo

Mexican voices of the border region / / Laura Velasco Ortiz and Oscar F. Contreras ; with translations by Sandra del Castillo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2011

ISBN

9786613133939

9781283133937

1283133938

9781592139101

1592139108

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Collana

Voices of Latin American life

Altri autori (Persone)

Contreras MontellanoOscar F

Disciplina

972/.1

Soggetti

Mexicans - Mexican-American Border Region - Social conditions

Mexican Americans - Mexican-American Border Region - Social conditions

Mexicans - Mexican-American Border Region - Ethnic identity

Mexican Americans - Mexican-American Border Region - Ethnic identity

Social ecology - Mexican-American Border Region

Mexican-American Border Region Social conditions

Mexican-American Border Region Emigration and immigration Social aspects



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Living on the agricultural frontier -- Home, sweet industrial home -- Sex without kisses, love with abuse -- A straight-dealing drug trafficker -- An indigenous woman street vendor -- A caregiver commuter -- A border acrobat -- The Mexicali panther -- A young Mexican American -- Guarding the American dream.

Sommario/riassunto

Every day, 40,000 commuters cross the U.S. Mexico border at Tijuana San Diego to go to work. Untold numbers cross illegally. Since NAFTA was signed into law, the border has become a greater obstacle for people moving between countries. Transnational powers have exerted greater control over the flow of goods, services, information, and people.Mexican Voices of the Border Region examines the flow of people, commercial traffic, and the development of relationships across this border. Through first-person narratives, Laura Velasco Ortiz and Oscar F. Contreras show that since