Sin Miedo: Violence, Mobility, and Identity in el Paso del Norte
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Date
2011-12
Authors
Kladzyk, Rene Grace
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Publisher
University of Oregon
Abstract
Together, the cities El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico form the largest international border metropolis in the world. While El Paso consistently ranks among the safest cities in the U.S., Cd. Juarez's recent and extreme escalation of violence has produced one of the world's most dangerous locales. Within this starkly differentiated and transnational urban conglomeration, complex geographies of gender, culture, and identity have emerged, prompting the following question: how is mobility shifting throughout el Paso del Norte in response to the heightened violence in Juarez, and what are the implications of these negotiations of mobility for fronterizo (borderlander) identity? By focusing on gendered mobilities in the U.S./Mexico borderlands, this study engages with cultural implications of the recent drug conflict fueled exodus from Juarez into El Paso, articulating the negotiation of identities and daily geographies which characterize the divided lives of borderlanders.
Description
x, 144 p. ： col. ill.
Keywords
Geography, Gender studies, Social sciences, Border towns, El Paso (Tex.), Identity, Juarez, Mobility, Violence, Ciudad Juarez (Mexico)