Recent Research on the U.S.-Mexico Border

Heyman, Josiah McC.; Campbell, Howard

doi:10.1353/lar.2004.0048

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“…Although our research team included people from a wide range of socioeconomic statuses and racial/ethnic identities, we were all nonetheless steeped in a middle-class US environmental sensibility, and initially saw the colonia as a locus of pollution and violence (Heyman and Campbell 2004) and a site of environmental disaster (Hill 2006). Our initial perspective was to view colonia residents as victims of this place.…”

Section: Derechos Humanos: a Land Of Opportunity And Hopementioning

confidence: 99%

Ambivalent Landscapes: Environmental Justice in the US–Mexico Borderlands

Johnson

Niemeyer

2008

Hum Ecol

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How can a single landscape, a shantytown on the US-Mexico border, symbolize environmental devastation for some and progress and 'the good life' for others? Our analysis of this landscape and the people who are a part of it highlights the complexities of the environmental justice movement in the current era of neo-liberal economic policies. Although the colonia that we studied, Derechos Humanos, is located on top of an abandoned landfill near an open sewage canal, living here represents a step forward for many residents. However, to many US environmentalists, this landscape represents a toxic wasteland and the people living here are simply victims of border industrialization. Contributing to critical environmental justice studies, our analysis of Derechos Humanos highlights the injustices of the global political economy, creative responses to these forces by individuals most adversely affected by them, and the potential limitations of conventional framings of environmental justice and mainstream Northern environmentalism.

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Section: Derechos Humanos: a Land Of Opportunity And Hopementioning

confidence: 99%

Ambivalent Landscapes: Environmental Justice in the US–Mexico Borderlands

Johnson

Niemeyer

2008

Hum Ecol

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“…Consequently, the settlements and their residents have become an integral part of domestic border studies (Bath et al. , 1994; Pena, 2002; Heyman and Campbell, 2004).…”

Section: Colonias In Texasmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Anthropologists interested in studying the 'margins' and the 'other' found productive opportunities in researching colonias (Staudt et al , 1998;Earle, 1999a;1999b). Consequently, the settlements and their residents have become an integral part of domestic border studies (Bath et al , 1994;Pena, 2002;Heyman and Campbell, 2004).…”

Section: Colonias In Texasmentioning

confidence: 99%

What’s in a Name? A Critique of ‘Colonias’ in the United States

Mukhija¹,

Monkkonen

2007

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Colonias' in the United States are a relatively recent phenomenon for planning practitioners and scholars. Most of the focus of policy and literature has been on the unregulated, substandard settlements in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. Past studies of colonias in the three states have criticized policy efficacy and questioned whether colonias are appropriately or adequately defined. Our objective in this essay is complementary. We draw from the literature, and our research in California, to explain and share our concerns with the policy practice of naming settlements with poor infrastructure and living conditions as colonias, a Spanish-language name. We argue that the name can be misleading, prejudiced and risks being detrimental. We discuss our misgivings about federal public policy using a non-English title for labeling substandard settlements, and suggest that scholars and policymakers need to revisit the terminology.Naming people and places can be a challenging and contentious enterprise. Shakespeare's Juliet would argue that a rose by any other word would smell as sweet, and names are a meaningless convention. Walt Whitman with his penchant for the aboriginal Mannahatta over the colonial provenance of the name New York would disagree. We think that names in public policy can matter. In this essay we focus on 'colonias' in the United States, and share our concerns about the appropriateness, and potential adverse effects, of the name. While the name has a certain allure, we suggest that scholars and policymakers revisit the terminology.

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“…As a community, the approximately two million people of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, have endured a seemingly endless series of tragedies. These include the unsolved killings of more than 300 women in the past decade, a spiraling increase in drug‐related violence, widespread police corruption, and the influx of thousands of impoverished persons from the countryside in search of subsistence wages in the maquiladoras or foreign‐owned factories (Heyman & Campbell, 2004). Just across the Rio Grande from Juarez sits El Paso, TX, a comparatively bucolic place of 700,000 persons that boasts of being the second safest city in the United States (Morgan Quitno, 2005).…”

Section: Once Upon a Time In Juarezmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trauma, Policy, and Public Health on the U.S.‐Mexico Border

Olson

2007

Public Health Nursing

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Recent Research on the U.S.-Mexico Border

Cited by 18 publications

References 20 publications

Ambivalent Landscapes: Environmental Justice in the US–Mexico Borderlands

Ambivalent Landscapes: Environmental Justice in the US–Mexico Borderlands

What’s in a Name? A Critique of ‘Colonias’ in the United States

Trauma, Policy, and Public Health on the U.S.‐Mexico Border

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