The historical study of borderlands has been unduly restricted by an emphasis on the legal,
political, and geographical aspects of borders and by a state-centered approach. Too often …

Border control-the effort to restrict territorial access-has long been a core state activity.'As
terri-torially demarcated institutions, states have always imposed entry barriers, whether to …

This is a major revision and update of Nevins' earlier classic and is an ideal text for use with
undergraduate students in a wide variety of courses on immigration, transnational issues …

Ranging from Los Angeles to Havana to the Bronx to the US-Mexico border and from
klezmer to hip hop to Latin rock, this groundbreaking book injects popular music into …

The importance of political boundaries in the development, function and flow of tourism
cannot be overemphasized. In light of today's political transformations and processes of …

Latino Homicide is the first empirically based, but readable book for courses to counter the
conventional wisdom that immigrant populations only contribute crime to their communities …

First published in 1989, this book focuses upon the phenomenon of export-led
industrialisation fuelled by foreign investment and technology. He concentrates on Mexico …

In a time of changing border functions city pairs on either side of national state borders have
increasingly become objects of attention, because of border crossing contacts and co …

The Westphalian system of sovereign nation-states is being challenged as national
administrations lose theirgate-keeper-role'between domestic and international politics. But …

The US-Mexican borderlands form the region where the United States and Latin America
have interacted with the greatest intensity. In US-Mexico Borderlands, Oscar Martinez has …