Mexico and the United States exist in a symbiotic relationship: Mexico frequently provides
the United States with cheap labor, illegal goods, and, for criminal offenders, a refuge from …

This paper investigates spatial diffusion patterns of high levels of violence across Mexican
municipalities to nearby locations while also exploring the possible effect of increasing law …

This book offers an accessible reference on epidemic and pandemic diseases that provides
background information and history, explains why pandemics are a newly emerging threat …

Drawing on government data and interdisciplinary expertise, this timely book seeks to
explain why the changing economic and legal status of women has not reduced the gender …

While Ohmae (1990) contended that the pressure of global trade, flows of information,
people and goods within a world economy and global market place could not sustain the …

The recent surge in crime and drug-related violence in Mexico has had a profound effect on
the Mexican economy. Thousands of businesses have closed in Ciudad Juarez, a city that …

Exploring human trafficking in the US-Mexico borderlands as a regional expression of a
pressing global problem, Borderline Slavery sheds light on the contexts and causes of …

T he US-Mexico border directs considerable media attention toward violence and drugs.
Usually, this attention is oblivious to gender: whether victims and aggressors are male or …

Le contrôle des migrations le long de la frontière États-Unis/Mexique depuis les années
1980 est devenu l'une des mesures fédérales de renforcement sécuritaire les plus …

This dissertation brings critical visual culture studies to bear on mediatized representations
of borders and migration in US and Mexican contexts. In particular, this study examines how …