The U.S.-Mexico border is the busiest in the world, the longest and most dramatic meeting point of a rich and poor country, and the site of intense confrontation between law enforcement and law evasion. Border control has changed in recent years from a low-maintenance and politically marginal activi
The U.S.-Mexico Border: Transcending Divisions, Contesting Identities
β Scribed by David Spener (editor); Kathleen Staudt (editor)
- Publisher
- Lynne Rienner Publishers
- Year
- 2022
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 264
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Presents the U.S.-Mexico border as a site from which to survey both the social and economic networks and the issues of identity and symbolism that surround borders.
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