Cities and Citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico Border

The Paso Del Norte Metropolitan Region

• Author(s): Kathleen Staudt, César M. Fuentes Flores, Julia E. Monárrez Fragoso,
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Pages: 250
• ISBN_10: 0230100317
  ISBN_13: 9780230100312
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Economic Conditions , History / North America , Political Science / General , Political Science / Civics & Citizenship , Political Science / History & Theory , Political Science / International Relations / General , Political Science / Globalization , Political Science / American Government / General , Political Science / World / Caribbean & Latin American , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Emigration & Immigration , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies ,

Description:... Preface: Living and Working in a Global Manufacturing Border Urban Space: A Paradigm for the Future? - Kathleen Staudt * THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC MODEL * Globalization, Trans-border Networks, and Mexico-U.S. Border Cities - Cesar M. Fuentes and Sergio Pena * SECTION I: SECURITY AND SAFETY IN THE BORDER REGION * Death at the Border - Julia Monarrez Fragoso * The Disarticulation of Justice: Precarious Life and Cross-Border Feminicides in the Paso del Norte Region - Julia Monarrez Fragoso and Cynthia Bejarano * Surviving Domestic Violence in the Paso del Norte Region - Kathleen Staudt and Rosalba Robles Ortega * SECTION II: GLOBALIZED PRODUCTION, URBAN SPACE, AND PUBLIC SERVICES * Globalization and its Effects on Urban Socio-Spatial Structure in a Transfrontier Metropolis: El Paso, TX-Ciudad Juarez, CHIH-Sunland Park, NM - Cesar M. Fuentes and Sergio Pena * Global Production and Precarious Labor: Harness Production in Ciudad Juarez - Martha Miker Palafox * SECTION III: LIVING WITH GLOBALIZED RISKS: POVERTY, IMMIGRATION, AND EDUCATION * Centering the Margins: The Transformation of Community in Colonias at the U.S.-Mexico Border - Guillermina Nunez-Mchiri and Georg Klamminger * Schooling for Global Competitiveness in the Border Metropolitan Region - Kathleen Staudt and Zulma Mendez * Alianza para la Calidad de la Educacion and the Production of an Empty Curriculum - Zulma Mendez * TOWARD NEW GOVERNANCE? * Good Governance in a Globalizing Tri-state Bi-National Region - Tony Payan.