As they overcome intimidation to become game-changing activists, the figures featured in Courage, Resistance, and Women in Ciudad Juárez offer the possibility of peace and justice in the wake of seemingly irreconcilable conflict.
... illegal in the United States due to (with historical hindsight) misconceived prohibition law, but probably not illicit in the eyes of buyers and sellers (drawing on conceptual distinctions developed in chapter 10 on trade).23 These ...
The premise of this book is that the U.S.-Mexico Border Region is subject to systematic oppression and that the so-called social pathologies that we see in the region are by-products of social and economic injustice in the form of labor ...
Fronteras No Mas examines the range of officials, non-government organizations, networks and remaining organizational vacuums that span the U.S. - Mexico border.
Forty years after Richard Nixon declared a “War on Drugs,” this sobering book offers views of the “narco wars” from scholars on both sides of the US-Mexico border.
This book addresses those concerns by focusing on gender-based violence, security, and human rights from the perspective of women who live with both violence and poverty.
In this evidence-based book with multiple sections, readers can better understand recent historical and current perspectives on developers' designs for the downtown, political campaign contributions, land deals, the travesty of the ...
In SERTA: In memoriam Alexandri Baratta, edited by Fernando Pérez Álvarez, 1349— 62. Salamanca, Spain: CISE/Universidad de Salamanca. Sequeros Sazatornil, Fernando. 2000. El tráfico de drogas ante el ordenamiento jurídico: Evolución ...
In the seven years since the first edition of this book, global attention has focused on some remarkable transitions to democracy on different continents.
... border crossing. Across the long, invisible line in the desert through the Rio Grande/ Río Bravo, Mexicans “invade” the United States. “Border Security” has become the watchword phrase of fear and of bureaucratic and bipartisan ...
This book will appeal to those interested in community-based organizing and leadership, Mexican American and women’s politics, civic-capacity building in education, political socialization, and both Texas and urban politics.
The Texas branch has many affiliates throughout the state. This book describes the evolution of those affiliates and their cooperative activities with other advocacy groups"--