Fronteras no mas : toward social justice at the U.S.-Mexico border /
Staudt, Kathleen A.
Fronteras no mas : toward social justice at the U.S.-Mexico border / by Kathleen Staudt and Irasema Coronado. - 1st ed. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. - x, 204 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-200) and index.
Historical Background and Comparative Border Perspectives -- Policy/Issue Areas -- Labor and Employment -- Immigration -- Human Rights -- Business and Commerce -Environment and Health -- Conclusions and Future Blueprints.
Publisher description: Fronteras No Mas treats the U.S.-Mexico border as an opportune space in which residents address their common interests in a clean environment, better wages and trade, and respect for human rights. Since NAFTA, more transnational institutions and policies have emerged, facilitating the growth of civil society, such as community-based and nonprofit organizations. Yet cross-border organizing remains a challenging and complex version of local politics: residents live and work within a region of vast economic equalities and markedly different governments. The authors offer a civic blueprint on ways to enhance cooperation, given the continuing interdependence of this North American space at the border.
0312239394 0312295472 (pbk.)
2002068413
Social justice--Mexican-American Border Region.
Pan-Americanism.
Non-governmental organizations--Mexican-American Border Region.
Human rights--Mexican-American Border Region.
HM671 / .S73 2002
303.3/72/09721
Fronteras no mas : toward social justice at the U.S.-Mexico border / by Kathleen Staudt and Irasema Coronado. - 1st ed. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. - x, 204 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-200) and index.
Historical Background and Comparative Border Perspectives -- Policy/Issue Areas -- Labor and Employment -- Immigration -- Human Rights -- Business and Commerce -Environment and Health -- Conclusions and Future Blueprints.
Publisher description: Fronteras No Mas treats the U.S.-Mexico border as an opportune space in which residents address their common interests in a clean environment, better wages and trade, and respect for human rights. Since NAFTA, more transnational institutions and policies have emerged, facilitating the growth of civil society, such as community-based and nonprofit organizations. Yet cross-border organizing remains a challenging and complex version of local politics: residents live and work within a region of vast economic equalities and markedly different governments. The authors offer a civic blueprint on ways to enhance cooperation, given the continuing interdependence of this North American space at the border.
0312239394 0312295472 (pbk.)
2002068413
Social justice--Mexican-American Border Region.
Pan-Americanism.
Non-governmental organizations--Mexican-American Border Region.
Human rights--Mexican-American Border Region.
HM671 / .S73 2002
303.3/72/09721