Articles

Originally published in 2004, Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism is a collection of critical essays devoted to Scottish writing between 1745 and 1830 - a... 
Borders Region (Scotland) In literature | Borders Region (Scotland) Intellectual life | Romanticism | Scotland Intellectual life | Scottish literature | Scottish Borders (England and Scotland) Intellectual life | Scottish Borders (England and Scotland) In literature | History and criticism | Scotland In literature | Literature: History & Criticism | English literature | 18th century

"This highly original work of anthropology combines extensive ethnographic fieldwork and investigative journalism in order to explain how security is... 
Press coverage | Security, International | Border security | Crime | Anthropology | General | Social Science | Tri-Border Area (Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay) | Border security - Tri-Border Area (Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay)

"Anthropologist Jason De León sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time--the human consequences of US immigration policy. The Land... 
Immigration enforcement | Border security | Social aspects | United States Emigration and immigrationGovernment policy | Mexico Emigration and immigration | Anthropology | General | Social Science | Emigration and immigration | United States | Mexican-American Border Region | Mexico | Government policy | Arizona

On the Run of Mexico: Encounters of the Rich and Poor addresses the ties and asymmetries across the Mexico-U.S. border, from Tijuana/San Diego to... 
Mexico Relations | Ethnic identity | Mexicans | Mexican-American Border Region Social conditions | United States Relations | Mexican-American Border Region Economic conditions | Economic conditions | Social conditions | International Politics | Mexicans-Mexican-American Border Region-Social conditions | United States-Relations-Mexico | Mexicans-Mexican-American Border Region-Ethnic identity | Mexican-American Border Region-Economic conditions | Mexico-Relations-United States | Mexican-American Border Region-Social conditions | Mexicans-Mexican-American Border Region-Economic conditions

The Tea Party and its allies celebrate the rogue states of the Southwest as a model for the nation in their go-it-alone posturing and tough... 
Emigration and immigration | Political corruption | Mexican-American Border Region | Economic aspects | Corrupt practices | Immigration enforcement | Border security | Immigrants | Government policy | Social conditions | United States Emigration and immigrationGovernment policy | United States | Political Science | Sociology

Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter is an innovative study of Scott's and Byron's poetical engagement with borders (actual and metaphorical) and... 
Border Ballads | Scottish Culture | Traditional Culture, Folklore and Folklife | Nineteenth Century | Authors | English Literature | Scott, Walter, Sir | Influence | Song, Music, Ballad | Byron, George Gordon Noel, Lord

In the early 1830s, after decades of relative peace, northern Mexicans and the Indians whom they called "the barbarians" descended into a terrifying cycle of... 
Mexican-American Border Region Ethnic relationsHistory | Indians | Wars | Mexico, North History, Military | Indians of North America | Mexican-American Border Region History, Military | Mexican War, 1846-1848 | Mexico, North Ethnic relationsHistory | Mexico, North | Mexican-American Border Region | History, Military | Mexican War, 1846–1848 | History | 19th century | Ethnic relations

"With the war between the Mexican state and the drug traffickers operating within its borders having claimed over 70,000 lives since 2006, noted journalist and... 
Drug control | Drug dealers | Drug traffic | Violence | HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico | TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime | Mexican-American Border Region Social conditions | Cartels | Social aspects | Interviews

Exploring human trafficking in the US - Mexico borderlands as a regional expression of a pressing global problem, Borderline Slavery sheds light on the... 
Human trafficking | Human smuggling | Slave labor | Illegal aliens | Foreign workers | Criminology and Criminal Justice | American Studies | U.S. Politics | Migration | Gender Studies | Latin American & Hispanic Studies | Racial & Ethnic Politics | Popular Culture | Human Rights Law & Civil Liberties | Political Geography | Mexican-American Border Region

Economic aspects | Smuggling | Border security | Mexican-Guatemalan Border Region Commerce | Borderlands

"The history of the maquiladoras has been punctuated by workers' organized resistance to abysmal working and living conditions. Over years of involvement in... 
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography | Offshore assembly industry | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor | Labor unions | HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico | Employees | Organizing | Women offshore assembly industry workers | Mexican–American Border Region | Population Studies | History | Business | Mexican-American Border Region

Mexico Emigration and immigrationSocial aspects | Border crossing | Humanitarian assistance | United States Emigration and immigrationSocial aspects | Illegal aliens

"For much of the twentieth century, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) officials recognized that the US-Mexico border region was a special case.... 
Emigration and immigration | United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service | Mexicans | Mexican-American Border Region | Immigration enforcement | Emigration and immigration law | Border security | Government policy | Legal status, laws, etc | United States Emigration and immigrationGovernment policy | History of the Americas | Mexicans - Legal status, laws, etc - United States | Administrative state | Guest workers | Borderlands | Immigration law | Bracero program | Mexican repatriation | Operation wetback | Border crossers | Border patrol | INS

This is the untold history of the United States Border Patrol from its beginnings in 1924 as a small peripheral outfit to its emergence as a large professional... 
Mexican-American Border Region History | United States Emigration and immigration | Illegal aliens | U.S. Border Patrol History | Mexican-American Border Region | Emigration and immigration | United States. Immigration Border Patrol | History | United States

"This co-edited volume is the first book to incorporate a transdisciplinary approach that examines transnational Mexican cultural productions through a variety... 
Intellectual life | Mexican Americans | Ethnic identity | Mexican-American Border Region Intellectual life | Mexicans | History | Latino & Latin American Studies | Literary and Cultural Studies | Literary Criticism and Theory | Popular Culture | Latin American Politics | Media & Cultural Studies | Media and Cultural Theory | Ethnology-Latin America

Scottish Borders (England and Scotland) | History and criticism | Scottish ballads and songs | English ballads and songs

"At the center of the 2,000 mile U.S.-Mexico border, a sprawling transnational urban space has mushroomed into a metropolitan region with over two million... 
Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) Social conditions | Globalization | Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) Economic conditions | Mexican-American Border Region Social conditions | Mexican-American Border Region Emigration and immigrationSocial aspects | Mexican-American Border Region Politics and government | Mexican-American Border Region Economic conditions | Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) Politics and government