Cities and Citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico

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

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).

List of Maps and Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. viii
Preface: "Living and Working in a Global Manufacturing Border Urban Space: A Paradigm for the Future?"	p. ix
Globalization, Transborder Networks, and U.S.-Mexico Border Cities	p. 1
Security and Safety in the Border Region	p. 21
Death in a Transnational Metropolitan Region	p. 23
The Disarticulation of Justice: Precarious Life and Cross-Border Feminicides in the Paso del Norte Region	p. 43
Surviving Domestic Violence in the Paso del Norte Border Region	p. 71
Globalized Production, Urban Space, and Public Services	p. 91
Globalization and its Effects on the Urban Socio-Spatial Structure of a Transfrontier Metropolis: El Paso, TX-Ciudad Juárez, Chih.-Sunland-Park, NM	p. 93
World-class Automotive Harnesses and the Precariousness of Employment in Juárez	p. 119
Living with Globalized Risks: Poverty, Immigration, and Education	p. 145
Centering the Margins: The Transformation of Community in Colonias on the U.S.-Mexico Border	p. 147
Schooling for Global Competitiveness in the Border Metropolitan Region	p. 173
Alianza para la Calidad de la Educación and the Production of an Empty Curriculum	p. 195
Toward New Governance?	p. 215
Crossborder Governance in a Tristate, Binational Region	p. 217
About the Contributors	p. 245
Index	p. 247
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Cities and Citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico Border The Paso del Norte Metropolitan Region

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