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The article analyzes the change and adaptation process of miners who became agricultural settlers on the coast of Hermosillo. All of them had been unemployed because of the closure of the copper mine in Pilares, Sonora, in 1949. The methodological perspective applied instruments of social and cultural history with concepts of memory studies. It is possible to identify a fractured identity through the broken projections for the future, forcing settlers to re-elaborate their life stories. The study involved work with orality, which resulted in some limitations that had to be solved with contrast of documentary and historiographic sources. The visibility of a community with a strong presence in the social imagination of Sonora defined the originality of the study, concluding further that there is a pilgrim cultural identity that was formed outside the mining space but with symbolic elements of it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is a small number of transborder students who reside in Mexico but go to school in the United States. Less than 2.5 percent of students residing in border cities such as Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez or Nogales, are transborder students. Pupils born in Mexico that go to school in the United states represent less than 1 percent of the student population in all educational levels. Country of birth, having parents that are international commuters, and household income are elements that enable or limit transborder membership. High earnings are the central factor for Mexicans that want to go to school del otro lado. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyzes the changes in two cross-border processes: employment and giving birth in the United States among the northern border populations of Mexico between 2000 and 2010. Various statistical methods are used to analyze the trends and the changes in the socioeconomic profiles of those who perform these practices. While the numbers of cross-border workers dropped, cross-border births increased; people with higher levels of education became increasingly represented in both categories. These results suggest that this border has become a more selective "blockade" for transborder interactions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article studies the marketing and sales of used clothing at the border between Bolivia and Brazil. The clothes cross through several countries via various forms of transportation, undergoing processes of smuggling, reuse, and wardrobe redefinition. At the end of the 20th century, the used clothing market acquired major importance through the involvement of North American and European nongovernmental organizations in collecting these goods in the form of donations to then send to South American countries, where the garments are remarketed. The used clothes take long voyages to get to Chilean ports, and then journey by train and other means of transportation toward Bolivia's eastern border with Brazil. Puerto Quijarro, Bolivia, and Corumbá, Brazil, represent an encounter of cultural and commercial exchange where smuggling and the buying and selling of used clothes are part of the cities' day-to-day engagement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research analyzes the conurbation process of two Peruvian cities on the border with Ecuador: Zarumilla and Aguas verdes. This article studies how different processes and phenomena at local, national, international, and global scales influence the socioeconomic dynamics of borders and shape the urban landscape and residents' ties with cities on the other side of the border. Intensive fieldwork involving surveys, interviews, field observations, and the use of secondary sources took place as part of the study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is a strong cross-border demographic and socioeconomic dynamic between Tijuana and San Diego; job opportunities in San Diego have brought it a growing population of Mexican origin. These two cities' interrelated economies bring about changes in the population and economic activity. This article examines the economic context from 1970 to 2010, including key events such as the Border Industrialization Program, the Simpson-Rodino Act, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the 2008 f inancial crisis. Tijuana's main employer is manufacturing, while in San Diego services and commerce are the main employers for workers of Mexican origin, who are increasing their participation in the professional services sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The border is a place of encounter for geopolitical and literary accounts as well as historiographical and anthropological ones, but also is, like the doors guarded by the god Janus, a location where the dichotomy between control and integration--the paradox of globalization-- is apparent. All this may allow an informal measurement of relations between neighbors. This article will discuss the implementation, over 30 years, of border controls at the Chilean-Bolivian frontier through the deployment of one of the most aggressive policies seen in teichopolitics: mine-laying that resulted in a virtual wall between both countries. F inally, the reasons that led Chile in recent years to remove mines and reduce its control of the border will be analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The territory in both sides of the Bravo River is a space of confluence and shared memory, but at the same time it's a space of divergences in understanding the world, and therefore, in the way of writing it. The cultural space, besides languages and its uses, do not find themselves restricted by political or economic limits. This work pretends to approach this relationship, this complex conception of the river as rupture and obligated passage, the way of living it or ignoring it, and the possible or impossible dialog relations between the cultural subjects that develop writing within a divided geography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article uses the Population and Housing Census 2000 to analyze the association between the post-basic education of the urban youth population and two indicators of transborder links on Mexico's northern border: being born in the United States and having transmigrants at home. The multivariate statistical analysis shows that although being born in the United States is positively associated with attending and completing high school, living in households with transmigrants reduces the likelihood of continuing higher education. Despite the improved socio-economic status of transborder families, household members' transborder employment may be affecting young people's educational aspirations, since it proves that a higher relative income can be achieved without investing in higher education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the symbolic construction of labor markets in apparel firms in Tangier, Morocco. The point of departure is the idea that in order to face the emptiness that individualization, pluralism, and life-world fragmentation cause, intermediate institutions are needed to guide the actions of individuals. Civic organizations arc conceived of as intermediate institutions that challenge the direction of the actions of women who are working in firms that have relocated to this border city. These civic organizations, through their practices and discourses--including resistance, integration and exclusion--contribute to the construction of these labor markets [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes how the image of Mexico has been constructed in the United States based on the idea of risk, and the border's special role in this process. This analysis seeks to explore the way limits between societies prevent possible threats for a group In this process the definition of otherness plays an important role. However, in this work we explore the way in which the other (Mexico) has been defined and constructed flora the United States' point of view. By way of an analytical example, we'll use movies filmed in North America using Mexican or Latin American images. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite Mexico sharing borders with three other countries, as recently as the beginning of the 1970s, there still predominated the idea that the only important border was the one with the United States. Chiapas, at the southern end of Mexico, constituted a territory apart, to which one could always turn in search of natural resources and political favors, but about which federal officials had little interest. As new variables appeared on the horizon—connected to both petroleum and hydroelectric exploitation and the Central American conflicts, as well as to the adjustments within the Mexico's political class—the scene began to alter, and the region went from abandonment to being of strategic interest. This work focuses on these considerations, and it seeks to prove that, by the beginning of the 1990s, the relationship between the federal and the state government spheres had already changed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Mexico-Guatemala border has historically been the site of many continuities and discontinuities: economic, demographic, environmental, cultural, ethnic, and political. However, recent transformations-due generally to political conflicts on both sides of the border-and economic integration-mostly trade-related-raise serious challenges to traditional mechanisms for the control and regulation of border dynamics. From a "national security" perspective, officials in both countries are calling for crime control in the area of drug, merchandise, and weapons trafficking. Most importantly, the Mexico-Guatemala border has confirmed its historical role as a place of intense population mobility, which requires appropriate regulation that will not impede the human or labor rights of migrants nor the well-being and sustainable development of the regions of origin and destination. Hence, governmental policies and international relations become focal points for discussion at both binational and multilateral levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]