Fifty years of change on the U.S.-Mexico border : growth, development, and quality of life

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Label

Fifty years of change on the U.S.-Mexico border : growth, development, and quality of life

Title remainder

growth, development, and quality of life

Statement of responsibility

Joan B. Anderson and James Gerber ; photographs by Lisa Foster

Title variation

50 years of change on the U.S.-Mexico border

Creator

• Anderson, Joan B

Contributor

• Gerber, James

Subject

• Labor supply -- Mexican-American Border Region
• Mexican-American Border Region -- Economic conditions
• Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions
• Mexico -- Commerce -- United States
• Migrant labor -- Mexican-American Border Region
• United States -- Commerce -- Mexico
• Industrial clusters -- Mexican-American Border Region

Language

eng

Summary

• With their unique blending of culture, language, and economics, the U.S. and Mexican border regions have experienced rapid demographic and economic growth over the last fifty years. Economically, the border divides countries with one of the world's largest cross-border income gaps. In as symmetrical a manner as possible, this book studies the nature and dynamics of this growth and what it has meant to the lives of dwellers on both sides of the border
• In this analysis, Joan Anderson and James Gerber offer a new perspective on the changes and tensions pulling at the border from both sides through a discussion of cross-border economic issues and thorough analytical research that examines not only the dramatic demographic and economic growth of the region, but also shifts in living standards, the changing political climate, and environmental pressures, as well as how these affect the lives of people in the border region
• Creating what they term a Border Human Development Index, the authors rank the quality of life for every U.S. county and Mexican municipio that touches the 2,000-mile border. Using data from six U.S. and Mexican censuses, the book adeptly illustrates disparities in various aspects of economic development between the two countries over the last six decades
• Anderson and Gerber make the material accessible and compelling by drawing an evocative picture of how similar the communities on either side of the border are culturally, yet how divided they are economically. The authors bring a heightened level of in sight to border issues not just for academics but also for general readers. The book will be of particular value to individuals interested in how the border between the two countries shapes the debates on quality of life, industrial growth, immigration, cross-border integration, and economic and social development

Cataloging source

DLC

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

HC135

LC item number

.A774 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography