Social Justice in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region

Mark Lusk (Curatore)

Kathleen Staudt (Curatore)

Springer, 2014

The U.S.-Mexico Border Region is among the poorest geographical areas in the United States. The region has been long characterized by dual development, poor infrastructure, weak schools, health disparities and low-wage employment. More recently, the region has been affected by the violence associated with a drug and crime war in Mexico. 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 exploitation, environmental racism, immigration militarism, institutional sexism and discrimination, health inequities, a political economy based on low-wage labor, and the globalization of labor and capital. The chapters address a variety of examples of injustice in the areas of environment, health disparity, migration unemployment, citizenship, women and gender violence, mental health, and drug violence. The book proposes a pathway to development.

• Curatore: Mark Lusk, Kathleen Staudt
• Editore: Springer
• Anno: 2014
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 288 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• EAN: 9789400793705

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