Social Justice in the US-Mexico Border Region

摘要: This chapter introduces the book and its conceptual framework. The US-Mexico border region is defined as a geographic, economic, cultural, social that affected by systematic economic injustice has resulted in problems are evident throughout region, including poverty, health inequities, low-wage assembly, service, agricultural employment. endemic poverty coexists with institutional racism gender violence. while populated resilient families communities have long confronted governmental neglect isolation, at periphery of American economy. A brief summary history included. distinct Mexican-American majority population, location on semi-porous through which people commodities flow under close scrutiny huge law enforcement presence further marginalizes residents each side border. describes construction events “moral panic” immigrants caricatured drug war seen apocalyptic terms.