Cities and Citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico Border The Paso del Norte Metropolitan Region

by Staudt, Kathleen; Fragoso, Julia E. Monárrez; Fuentes, César M.

• ISBN13: 9780230100329
• ISBN10: 0230100325
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The volume is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing an enormously significant region in ways that clarify the kind of everyday life and work that is generated in a major urban global manufacturing site amid insecurity, inequality, and a virtually absent state.

Author Biography

Kathleen Staudt is the author of recent books focused on the border, including Violence and Activism at the Border: Gender, Fear and Everyday Life in Ciudad Juárez (2008), lead editor of Human Rights along the U.S.-Mexico Border (2009), co-author with Susan Rippberger of Pledging Allegiance: Learning Nationalism in El Paso-Juárez (2003) ,and with Irasema Coronado, Fronteras no Más: Toward Social Justice at the U.S.-Mexico Border (2002). 

César M. Fuentes is the co-author, with Sergio Peña, of Planeación binacional y cooperación transfronteriza en la frontera México-Estados Unidos (2006). 

Julia Monárrez Fragoso is the co-editor of Bordeando la violencia contra las mujeres en la frontera norte (2007).

Table of Contents

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--César M. Fuentes and Sergio Peña * SECTION I: SECURITY AND SAFETY IN THE BORDER REGION * Death at the Border--Julia Monárrez Fragoso * The Disarticulation of Justice: Precarious Life and Cross-Border Feminicides in the Paso del Norte Region--Julia Monárrez 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 Juárez, CHIH-Sunland Park, NM--César M. Fuentes and Sergio Peña * Global Production and Precarious Labor: Harness Production in Ciudad Juárez--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 Nuñez-Mchiri and Georg Klamminger * Schooling for Global Competitiveness in the Border Metropolitan Region--Kathleen Staudt and Zulma Méndez * Alianza para la Calidad de la Educación and the Production of an Empty Curriculum--Zulma Méndez * TOWARD NEW GOVERNANCE? * Good Governance in a Globalizing Tri-state Bi-National Region--Tony Payan