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

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction and Conceptual Framework

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Social Justice in the US-Mexico Border Region

      • Mark Lusk, Kathleen Staudt, Eva M. Moya

      Pages 3-38

3. Critical Perspectives on the Border Region

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39

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   2. Political Economy and Social Justice in the US-Mexico Border Region

      • Josiah McC. Heyman

      Pages 41-59

   3. How Citizenship Produces Inclusion and Exclusion on the US-Mexico Border

      • Tony Payan

      Pages 61-78

   4. Violence Against Women at the Border: Binational Problems and Multilayered Solutions

      • Kathleen Staudt

      Pages 79-91

   5. A Theological Perspective on Social Justice in the US-Mexico Border Region

      • Rev. John Stowe

      Pages 93-105

4. Problems and Opportunities on the US-Mexico Border

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107

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5. Problems and Opportunities on the U.S. - Mexico Border

   1. Housing, Colonias, and Social Justice in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region

      • Guillermina Gina Núñez-Mchiri

      Pages 109-125

   2. Achieving Health Equity and Social Justice in the US-Mexico Border Region

      • Nuria Homedes

      Pages 127-144

   3. Mental Health Disparities and Social Justice in the US-Mexico Border Region

      • Griselda Villalobos, Arthur A. Islas

      Pages 145-159

   4. Border Health: Inequities, Social Determinants, and the Cases of Tuberculosis and HIV

      • Eva M. Moya, Oralia Loza, Mark Lusk

      Pages 161-178

   5. Environmental Injustice in the US-Mexico Border Region

      • Sara E. Grineski, Patricia M. Juárez-Carrillo

      Pages 179-198

   6. Migration and Discrimination: Contradictory Discourses Regarding Repatriations in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico

      • Hector Antonio Padilla, Irasema Coronado

      Pages 199-213

6. Moving Forward: Steps in Achieving Border Justice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215

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7. Moving Forward – Steps in Achieving Border Justice

   1. Education Policies: Standardized Testing, English-Language Learners, and Border Futures

      • Pauline Dow, Kathleen Staudt

      Pages 217-229

   2. Border Challenges and Ethnic Struggles for Social Justice in Arizona: Hispanic Communities Under Siege

      • Rosalía Solórzano Torres

      Pages 231-246

   3. Social Justice at the Border and in the Bordered United States: Implications for Policy and Practice

      • Mark Lusk, Kathleen Staudt, Eva M. Moya

      Pages 247-269

8. Back Matter

   Pages 271-286

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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.

• Anti-immigrant sentiment
• Economic Development in the United States
• Life in the U.S.-Mexico Border
• Social Justice on U.S.-Mexico border affairs
• US-Mexican Border Studies
• United States and Mexico

''Social Justice on the US Mexico Border is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary book I have encountered dealing with justice and human rights issues on the US Mexico border region. The wealth of its contents stems from its interdisciplinary analysis. This book must be read by all responsible policy makers who have the capacity to influence the living conditions of millions of people living between two cultures, two worlds and two ways of life."

Hector Luis Diaz, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Social Work, The Univrsity of Texas - Pan American

 

"Social Justice in the the U.S.-Mexico Border Region frames the broad issues of how to value human rights and bring dignity to the lives marginalized border residents. The conceptual framework allows the reader to gain insights about how gender and violence are often linked, health disparities are magnified, and services like mental health care are so challenging to navigate in the borderlands. I strongly recommend this book for those seeking to better understand the human dimension of the inequalities which exist along the U.S.-Mexico border."

Christine Thurlow Brenner, Ph.D. President, Association of Borderlands Studies, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Affairs University of Massachusetts

• College of Health Sciences, University of Texas, El Paso, USA

  Mark Lusk

• , Department of Political Science, University of Texas, El Paso, USA

  Kathleen Staudt

• Department of Social Work, University of Texas, El Paso, USA

  Eva Moya

Mark Lusk is professor of social work and associate dean of health sciences at the University of Texas at El Paso. A Latin Americanist and international development specialist, he has worked and lived throughout Latin America and other regions of the developing world. He was Fulbright Scholar in Peru and a decade later in Brazil. Kathleen Staudt is professor of political science at the University of Texas at El Paso. A well-known scholar on border studies, Kathy has written and edited 16 books on the US Mexico border, women’s rights and violence against women. Eva Moya is assistant professor of social work at the University of Texas at El Paso. She has worked extensively in research on border health disparities and infectious disease.

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