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.

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.
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 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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