Social justice in the U.S.-Mexico border region

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 socialpathologies that we see in the region are by-products of social and economic injustice in the form of labor exploitation, environmental racism, immigrationmilitarism, 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 pathwayto development.

• ISBN: 978-94-007-4149-2
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Fecha Publicación: 30/06/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés