Title:	Social Justice in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
Authors:	Lusk, Mark Kathleen Staudt
Keywords:	Social Justice
Issue Date:	2012
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	The US-Mexico border region is a distinct geographic, economic, cultural, and social area that is affected by systematic social and economic injustice. This is evidenced by social and economic problems that are apparent throughout the region, including poverty, health disparities, social inequities, and low-wage assembly, service, and agricultural employment. The endemic poverty coexists with institutional racism, gender violence, and structural violence. The area, while populatedby resilient families andcommunitiesthat have confrontedgovernmental neglect and social isolation, is at the periphery of the American economy. In this chapter,we providean overviewof the challenges in the US-Mexico borderregion, drawing on conceptual frameworks that address relative power and powerlessness in center-periphery relations. During both historical and contemporary eras, the border zone relates to the capital cities of both Washington, D.C., and Mexico City as a colonized periphery. First, however, we examine social justice from various disciplinary perspectives,groundedat the border
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/20812
ISBN:	978-94-007-4150-8
Appears in Collections:	Gender

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