Title Cities and citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico border : the Paso del Norte metropolitan region / edited by Kathleen Staudt, César M. Fuentes, and Julia E. Monárrez Fragoso

Edition 1st ed Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 250 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Preface : Living and working in a global manufacturing border urban space : a paradigm for the future? / Kathleen Staudt -- Globalization, transborder networks, and U.S.-Mexico border cities / César M. Fuentes and Sergio Peña -- Death in a transnational metropolitan region / Julia E. Monárrez Fragoso -- The disarticulation of justice : precarious life and cross-border feminicides in the Paso del Norte region / Julia E. Monárrez Fragoso and Cynthia Bejarano -- Surviving domestic violence in the Paso del Norte border region / Kathleen Staudt and Rosalba Robles Ortega -- Globalization and its effects on the urban socio-spatial structure of a transfrontier metropolis : El Paso, TX-Ciudad Juárez, Chih.-Sunland-Park, NM / César M. Fuentes and Sergio Peña -- World-class automotive harnesses and the precariousness of employment in Juárez / Martha Miker Palafox -- Centering the margins : the transformation of community in colonias on the U.S.-Mexico border / Guillermina Gina Núñez and Georg M. Klamminger -- Schooling for global competitiveness in the border metropolitan region / Kathleen Staudt and Zulma Y. Méndez -- Alianza para la Calidad de la Educación and the production of an empty curriculum / Zulma Y. Méndez -- Crossborder governance in a tristate, binational region / Tony Payan Summary "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 Jur̀ez, 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Globalization -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Case studies Globalization -- Mexico -- Ciudad Juárez HISTORY. Economic history Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects Globalization Politics and government Social conditions Mondialisation -- Région frontalière américano-mexicaine -- Études de cas. Émigrants et immigrants -- Région frontalière américano-mexicaine -- Conditions sociales. SUBJECT 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 Subject Mexico -- Ciudad Juárez North America -- Mexican-American Border Region Amérique centrale -- Région frontalière américano-mexicaine -- Conditions sociales. Région frontalière américano-mexicaine -- Émigration et immigration -- Aspect social. Genre/Form Case studies Case studies. Études de cas. Form Electronic book Author Staudt, Kathleen A., editor Fuentes Flores, César M., editor Monárrez Fragoso, Julia Estela, editor LC no. 2010002673 ISBN 9780230112919 0230112919 1282992678 9781282992672 9786612992674 6612992670 0230100325 9780230100329

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