TY - BOOK ID - 7541544 TI - Social justice in the U.S.-Mexico border region AU - Lusk, Mark. AU - Staudt, Kathleen A. AU - Moya, Eva. PY - 2012 SN - 9400793707 9400741499 9786613768384 9400741502 1280996773 PB - Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Equality. KW - Social stratification. KW - Sociology & Social History KW - Social Sciences KW - Social Change KW - Social justice KW - Mexican-American Border Region. KW - American-Mexican Border Region KW - Border Region, American-Mexican KW - Border Region, Mexican-American KW - Borderlands (Mexico and U.S.) KW - Mexico-United States Border Region KW - Tierras Fronterizas de México-Estados Unidos KW - United States-Mexico Border Region KW - Social sciences. KW - Political science. KW - Sociology. KW - Emigration and immigration. KW - Social Sciences. KW - Sociology, general. KW - Migration. KW - Political Science. KW - Equality KW - Justice KW - Administration KW - Civil government KW - Commonwealth, The KW - Government KW - Political theory KW - Political thought KW - Politics KW - Science, Political KW - Social sciences KW - State, The KW - Immigration KW - International migration KW - Migration, International KW - Population geography KW - Assimilation (Sociology) KW - Colonization KW - Social theory KW - Mexican-American Border Region KW - Social conditions. KW - Economic conditions. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7541544 AB - 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. ER -