Borderless Borders

by Bonilla, Frank

• ISBN13: 9781566396202
• ISBN10: 1566396204
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-07-01
• Publisher: Temple Univ Pr

Summary

Borderless Borders explores four themes that engage the Latino community inside and outside the U.S.: emerging forms of global and transnational interdependence; the impact of economic and political restructuring within the U.S., especially within Latino communities; changing concepts of community, citizenship, political participation, and human rights as individuals and families construct identities for themselves in more than one setting; and new approaches to international relations and issue-oriented social movements and organizations that are developing among these mobile populations.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface: Changing the Americas from Within the United States
Dependence or Interdependence: Issues and Policy Choices Facing Latin Americans and Latinos	p. 1
Global Interdependence	p. 15
Interdependence, Inequality, and Identity: Linking Latinos and Latin Americans	p. 17
Trading Places: U.S. Latinos and Trade Liberalization in the Americas	p. 35
The Transnationalization of Immigration Policy	p. 53
The Reconfigured United States	p. 69
The Burden of Interdependence: Demographic, Economic, and Social Prospects for Latinos in the Reconfigured U.S. Economy	p. 71
From Estrangement to Affinity: Dilemmas of Identity Among Hispanic Children	p. 83
The Economic Development of El Barrio	p. 105
The Politics and Identity of Diaspora	p. 129
1995-Terreno Peligroso/Danger Zone: Cultural Relations Between Chicanos and Mexicans at the End of the Century	p. 131
Visions of Dominicanness in the United States	p. 139
The Legacy of Conquest and Discovery: Meditations on Ethnicity, Race, and American Politics	p. 153
Transnational Political and Cultural Identities: Crossing Theoretical Borders	p. 169
Reaching for the Civil Society on a Global Scale	p. 183
Popular Movements and Economic Globalization	p. 185
The New Synthesis of Latin American and Latino Studies	p. 195
Rethinking Latino/Latin American Interdependence: New Knowing, New Practice	p. 217
Notes	p. 231
About the Illustrations	p. 277
About the Contributors	p. 279
Index	p. 281
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