Log in

Relevant bibliographies by topics / Families – Mexican-American Border Region / Dissertations / Theses

To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: Families – Mexican-American Border Region.

Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Families – Mexican-American Border Region'

Author: Grafiati

Published: 4 June 2021

Last updated: 14 February 2022

Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles

Select a source type:

Consult the top 41 dissertations / theses for your research on the topic 'Families – Mexican-American Border Region.'

Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.

You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.

Browse dissertations / theses on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.

1

O'Leary, Anna Ochoa. "Mujeres en el Cruce: Mapping Family Separation/Reunification at a Time of Border (In)Security." University of Arizona, Mexican American Studies and Research Center, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/219214.

Full text

Abstract:

In this paper I discuss some of the findings in my study of the encounters between female migrants and immigration enforcement authorities along the U.S.-Mexico border. An objective of the research is to ascertain a more accurate picture of women temporarily suspended in the “intersection” of diametrically opposed processes: immigration enforcement and transnational mobility. Of the many issues that have emerged from this research, family separation is most palpable. This suggests a deeply entrenched relationship between immigration enforcement and the transnationalization of family ties. While this relationship may at first not be obvious, women’s accounts of family separation and family reunification show how, in reconciling these contradictory tendencies, migrant mobility is strengthened, which in turn challenges enforcement measures. In this way, the intersection not only sheds light on how opposing forces (enforcement and mobility) converge but also how each is contingent on the other. This analysis is possible in part through the use of a conceptual intersection of diametrically opposed forces, border enforcement and transnational movement, and thus proves useful in examining the transformative nature of globalized spaces.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

2

O’Leary, Anna Ochoa, Gloria Ciria Valdez-Gardea, and Norma González. "Flexible Labor and Underinvestment in Women’s Education on the U.S-Mexico Border." University of Arizona, Mexican American Studies and Research Center, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/219197.

Full text

Abstract:

For the past 35 years, borderland industry has opened employment opportunities for women in the community of Nogales, Arizona. However, the expansion of free trade with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has aggravated economic instability by promoting the flexible use of labor, a practice that women have increasingly accommodated. Case studies of women engaged in the retail and maquiladora industries illustrate the interplay between flexible employment, reproduction, and education. These cases suggest that a strong connection between flexible employment and reproduction is sustained by ideologies that see these as mutually complimentary. At the same time, the connections between education and employment and reproduction activities are notably absent or weak. We argue that investing in the education of women, which could lead to more predictable employment, is in this way subverted by regional economic instability. The alienation of education from the other two realms of women’s activities works to the advantage of flexible employment practices and advances the underdevelopment of human capital on the U.S.-Mexico border.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

3

Navarro, Daniel E. "Cross-border fathering the lived experience of Mexican immigrant fathers /." Connect to resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/1726.

Full text

Abstract:

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2008.
Title from screen (viewed on August 28, 2009). School of Social Work, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): William P. Sullivan, Hea-Won Kim, Irene Queiro-Tajalli, Sara Horton-Deutsch. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 203-236).

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

4

Medrano, Estevan. "On the Fence." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799492/.

Full text

Abstract:

Living the vast majority of my life in an area that celebrates diversity but thrives because of illegal cross-border activities (undocumented workers, drug imports) at times the distance between the United States and Mexico is in fact as thin as the width of a fence. Though it is typical for a filmmaker to hope to present a unique take on a subject, given how I have seen the topics of immigration and the perspective of the purpose of homeland security portray, I am confident that there is an opportunity to show these issues in a more personal, less aggressive light with the use of first person accounts instead of a dependence on the most violent aspects of these topics. The main subject will give character to this agency by blurring the lines of his life as an agent and as a citizen.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

5

Craggett, Courtney 1986. ""Goodness and Mercy"." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849684/.

Full text

Abstract:

The stories in this collection represent an increasingly transcultural world by exploring the intersection of cultures and identities in border spaces, particularly the Mexican-American border. Characters, regardless of ethnicity, experience the effects of migration and deportation in schools, hometowns, relationships, and elsewhere. The collection as a whole focuses on the issues and themes found in Mexican-American literature, such as loss, separation, and the search for identity.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

6

Arias, Trujillo Maria Lourdes. "Caminar con y como migrantes para transformar la frontera foundations for the creation of feminist communities on the border /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2006. http://www.tren.com.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

7

Ordonez, Karina J. "Modeling the U.S. border patrol Tucson sector for the deployment and operations of border security forces." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/2978.

Full text

Abstract:

CHDS State/Local
Illegal cross-border activity is a severe homeland defense and security problem along the international Southwest border. The issue of illegal human smuggling is not new to the United States-Mexico border or to law enforcement agencies; however, the phenomenon is rising and human smugglers are adjusting to law enforcement tactics. This thesis has three objectives. First, it describes and identifies the fundamental dimensions of U.S. Border Patrol operations in the busiest, most vulnerable section of the border. Second, it integrates prominent border security factors into a mathematical predictive model -- the Arizona-Sonora Border (ASB) Model * that provides an illustration of possible border security operational strategies and the outcome apprehension probability of migrants given the implementation of various operational strategies. Last, this thesis seeks to provide a comprehensive picture of the complex dynamics along the USBP Tucson Sector. This picture highlights the primary challenges facing policymakers in developing innovative policies that will minimize illegal cross-border activity and secure the homeland.
Southwest Border Specialist, Arizona Office of Homeland Security

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

8

Watts, Brenda. "Historical transgressions : the creation of a transnational female political subject in works by Chicana writers /." view abstract or download file of text, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9978603.

Full text

Abstract:

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 314-323). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

9

Novela, George. "Testing maquiladora forecast accuracy." To access this resource online via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses @ UTEP, 2008. http://0-proquest.umi.com.lib.utep.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTU0YmImSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=2515.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

10

Graves, Scott Herbert. "Public participation in bureaucratic policy-making :the case of the U.S.-Mexico Border Environment Cooperation Commission." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3037013.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

11

Luna, Brandon Salvador. "Race, immigration law, and the U.S.-Mexico border a history of the border patrol and the Mexican-origin population in the Southwest /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p1457321.

Full text

Abstract:

Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed November 5, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-149).

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

12

Pritchard, Démian. "Policing the border : politics and place in the work of Miguel Méndez, Marisela Norte, and Leslie Marmon Silko /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3091318.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

13

Bowles, John Ray. "The Acute Myocardial Infarction Symptom Experience of Mexican-American Women with Coronary Heart Disease in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/299130.

Full text

Abstract:

Background: Mexican-American women are a burgeoning population and are at increased risk for heart disease. However, there are no studies published yet describing acute myocardial infarction (AMI) symptoms unique to this Hispanic subgroup. Aims: Guided by vulnerability theory, the aims were to describe Mexican-American women's perceptions of the AMI symptom experience and to measure their self-reported acute and prodromal MI symptoms. Methods: A convenience sample of eight Mexican-American women mean age 63 years (range 41-78 years) with recent AMI from the U.S.-Mexico border region participated in a semi-structured interview and completed the McSweeney Acute and Prodromal Myocardial Infarction Symptom Survey (MAPMISS). Qualitative description was used to analyze codes from interview data and descriptive statistics to analyze the MAPMISS responses. Results: Mexican-American women's symptom experience was incongruent with what they knew to be symptoms of a heart attack. They attributed AMI symptoms to non-cardiac causes and did not think they were having an MI. Women self-managed symptoms and delayed seeking health care until symptoms became severe. "Asphyxiatia" (asphyxiating) and "menos fuerza" (less strength) were the most commonly described symptoms in the interviews. On the MAPMISS, Mexican-American women reported a mean of 11.25 (range 5-22) acute and 8.75 (range 0-17) prodromal symptoms. Sleep disturbance and weakness and nausea were the most frequently reported prodromal and acute symptoms, respectively, as measured by MAPMISS. Prodromal leg pain was reported with more frequency than prodromal general chest pain. Conclusions: Delays in seeking health services by Mexican-American women in the U.S.-Mexico border region reflect (1) the difference in their actual MI symptoms compared to preconceived ideas of a heart attack, (2) different terms used to describe their MI symptoms, and (3) not initiating healthcare services themselves. These findings can be used to inform Mexican-American women and healthcare providers in the U.S.-Mexico border region about the unique experiences of Mexican-American women. The findings that participants were not able to recognize or attribute their AMI symptoms suggest that heart health education should be tailored to Mexican-American women and targeted to Mexican-American families and communities.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

14

Johnstone, Nick. "The nature, extent and consequences of international differences in the price of pollution : a case study of the Mexican-American border region." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.338325.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

15

Pulat, Halil. "A two-sided optimization of border patrol interdiction." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2005. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/05Jun%5FPulat.pdf.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

16

Robinson, Robert Steven. "Creating foreign policy locally migratory labor and the Texas border, 1943-1952 /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1185814949.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

17

Benitez, Juan Manuel. "A social history of the Mexico-United States border how tourism, demographic shifts and economic integration shaped the image and identity of Tijuana, Baja California, since World War II /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2005. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1031039661&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

18

Dinneen, Nathan. "Ranges of consideration: crossing the fields of ecology, philosophy and science studies." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3292/.

Full text

Abstract:

Environmental issues are often complex with many different constituents operating according to a broad range of communication techniques. In order to foster negotiations, different perspectives need to be articulated in lucid ways sensitive to various viewpoints and circumstances. In my thesis I investigate how certain approaches to environmental discourse effect dialogue and negotiation. My first two chapters focus on environmental problems surrounding rangeland ecology along the U.S./Mexico border; whereas the last two chapters explore more theoretical conflicts concerning the philosophy of nature. Throughout the thesis I show the significance of nonhumans (prairie dogs, cattle, biological assessment sheets, environmental laws, etc.) in the human community. Only by considering the roles of nonhumans do we broaden and enrich the conversation between ourselves concerning environmental issues.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

19

Bosquez, Monica Dolores. "Fear and discipline in a permanent state of exception : Mexicans, their families, and U.S. immigrant processing in Ciudad Juarez." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3510.

Full text

Abstract:

The United States recently completed the construction of a new Consulate compound in an underdeveloped site in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Mexican applicants for U.S. Immigrant Visas, particularly those who had previously entered the United States without inspection, are sent to the facility to apply through a mandatory personal interview. The interview process necessitates highly invasive medical exams at designated militarized facilities, followed by a series of interviews with consular officers. Applicants, many of whom are visiting Juarez for the first time, must wait in the city for days or weeks as they attempt to navigate the requirements. Even as the city has become more violent, the U.S. Consulate mission in Juarez has become an economic driver as it processes more immigrant visas than any other U.S. Consular office in the world. It is also the largest U.S. Consulate building on the planet and the immigration complex is drawing new migrants who are both seeking asylum through it and aiding in its construction. U.S. immigration policies and the administrative procedures that accompany them also serve to discipline immigrant visa applicants long before they arrive in Juarez as they navigate a system built on penalties and waivers. The effects of these policies transcend borders and citizenship, impacting not only the immigrant applicant, but their U.S. families as well. The normalization of violence towards Mexicans and their families is becoming entrenched in a culture of impunity, both in Mexico and the United States. The immigrant processing and maquiladora manufacturing that take place in Ciudad Juarez play a specific role in U.S. / Mexico relations and are representative of the intersection of immigration policy, labor desires, and neoliberal and post-neoliberal policies of structural violence. The United States has developed, in Juarez, an economic development and security program and immigrant processing center concomitantly and Mexico has worked lockstep to fortify this position. I examine this historical occurrence, and the experiences of immigrant applicants and their families, using Foucault’s theories of discipline.
text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

20

Garcia, Maribel. "Women's subjectivity, structural inequality and borderlands ethnography." 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3110611.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

21

García, Gilbert. "The role of the state in the development of Mexico's northern border." 1986. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/16213076.html.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

22

González-Ayala, Salvador Arturo. "Development of a travel demand model for transborder commuter activity." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/2430.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

23

Lucas, Faith Winklebleck. "Perceptual contexts of pregnancy of women of Mexican-descent along the Texas-Mexico border." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/2077.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

24

Gianos, Christopher Louis. "Developing democracy and coping with the growth transboundary institutions along the U.S.-Mexico border /." 2000. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/51935912.html.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

25

Lamadrid, Rebeca. "Border narrative through magical realism." 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR32035.

Full text

Abstract:

Thesis (M. Des.)--York University, 2007. Graduate Programme in Higher Education.
Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 36-38). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004 & res_dat=xri:pqdiss & rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation & rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR32035.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

26

González, Ramírez Raúl S. "Risk factors associated with compromised birth outcomes among Mexican origin population in El Paso, Texas: a postpartum hospital study." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/1556.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

27

Murphy, Moira Ann. "Competitive alliances emerging sectoral struggles along the Mexico-United States border /." 1999. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/45007654.html.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

28

Barajas, Escamilla Maria del Rosio. "The global production networks in an electronics industry the case of the Tijuana-San Diego binational region /." 2000. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/52210692.html.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

29

Callahan, Manuel. "Mexican border troubles : social war, settler colonialism and the production of frontier discourses, 1848-1880 /." Thesis, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3116266.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

30

Benavidez, Fernando. "The Chicano gunfighter and the Mestiza goddess contemporary Chicana/o identity in Américo Paredes /." 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2346/1172.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

31

Handelman, Jonathan Steven. "Operators at the borders the hero as change agent in border literature /." 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/550.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

32

Rosas, Gilbert Arthur. "Barrio libre (the free 'hood): transnational policing and the 'contamination' of everyday forms of subaltern agency at the neoliberal U.S.-Mexico border from way, way, below." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/1397.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

33

Andreas, Peter. "Sovereigns and smugglers enforcing the U.S.-Mexico border in the age of economic integration /." 1999. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/44064401.html.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

34

Sendejo, Brenda Lee. ""The face of god has changed" : Tejana cultural production and the politics of spirituality in the borderlands." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-08-1613.

Full text

Abstract:

This ethnography of spirituality explores the production of cultural practices and beliefs among a group of Texas Mexican women (Tejanas) of the post-World War II generation. These women have been involved with various social justice initiatives since the 1960s and 1970s in Texas, such as the Chicana feminist and Chicano civil rights movements. This study explains how race, ethnicity, and gender intersect and interact in these women’s geographic and spiritual borderlands to produce a pattern of change in the ways they choose to engage with religion, particularly Catholicism. While the Tejana spiritual productions examined here are in many ways distinct from the religious practices of these women’s Catholic upbringings, they also recall religious rituals and traditions from their imagined, constructed, and engaged pasts. Some women have left Catholicism for other forms of spiritual fulfillment, including earth-based, indigenous, and/or Eastern religious practices, while others have remained Catholic-identified, yet altered how they practice Catholicism. A common theme in the narratives is that of spiritual agency – the conscious decision women make to reconfigure their spiritual practices and beliefs. I explore the meaning of such acts and what they indicate about the construction of spiritual and religious identities in the borderlands. I argue that because gender structures Tejana religious experiences to such a wide extent, a critical gender analysis of religious and spiritual practices will provide deeper insight into the making of Texas Mexican culture and social relations. I examine the women’s life experiences through a methodological framework I call mujerista ethnography, which draws on oral history and research methods employed by feminist, indigenous, and Chicana/o Studies scholars. In order to further illustrate how the women’s material and spiritual needs have changed so as to require new forms of spiritual engagement, I engage in a critical self-reflection of my own spiritual journey as a Tejana raised in the Catholic faith through the use of autoethnographic research methods and testimonio. I argue that these Tejanas have extended the political, feminist, and historical consciousnesses that they cultivated in Mexican American social causes into the religious and spiritual realms. For instance, these women transferred their critique of gender politics and hierarchies of power into the social setting of organized Catholicism with new spiritual practices and understandings, effectively remaking religion and subsequently engaging in processes of self-making by changing the ways they interact with Catholicism and are affected by it. Religion, as a site of social struggle for women, is political, that is, these Tejanas transformed the spiritual into a site of resistance, resolution, and reconciliation where they disrupt and challenge hierarchies of power and create strategies for healing themselves, their communities, and the earth.
text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

35

Gonzalez, Ramiro 1982. "Downtown revitalization along the US-Mexico Border : a case study on Brownsville, Texas." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3050.

Full text

Abstract:

This analysis of the Downtown areas in US- Mexico Border Cities such as Brownsville, McAllen, Laredo, and San Diego will chronicle the history and foundation of each city and also the current revitalization efforts underway in many of these cities. Brownsville, Texas is one of those cities located along the border with a rich history and a unique downtown that some have called the New Orleans on the Rio Grande. The architecture has a heavy New Orleans influence thereby making this downtown the most unique in the Rio Grande Valley. Revitalization Efforts in Brownsville continuously resurface only to be unsuccessful due to many variables including the lack of political will to take on perhaps the biggest challenge to face Brownsville. Nonetheless, revitalization of this area must occur and in order to fully understand the intricacies of Downtown Brownsville one must look back in time to see what exactly made Downtown Brownsville so special. This report will seek those answers and give positive and realistic recommendations that could assist in the revitalization of Downtown Brownsville.
text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

36

Moberly, Danene (DJ) Day R. Sue Slomka Jacquelyn. "Knowledge of exercise recommendations and energy intake from foods and beverages in relation to exercise behaviors within two Hispanic border communities." 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1450310.

Full text

Abstract:

Thesis (M.P.H.)--University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, 2008.
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 46-05, page: 2669. Adviser: R. Sue Day. Includes bibliographical references.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

37

Guerra, Santiago Ivan 1982. "From vaqueros to mafiosos : a community history of drug trafficking in rural South Texas." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3036.

Full text

Abstract:

My dissertation, From Vaqueros to Mafiosos: A Community History of Drug Trafficking in Rural South Texas is an ethnographic study of the impact of the drug trade in South Texas, with a specific focus on Starr County. This dissertation examines drug trafficking along the U.S-Mexico Border at two levels of analysis. First, through historical ethnography, I provide a cultural history of South Texas, as well as a specific history of drug trafficking in Starr County. In doing so, I highlight the different trafficking practices that emerge throughout South Texas’ history, and I document the social changes that develop in Starr County as a result of these illicit practices. The second half of my dissertation, however, is devoted to a contemporary analysis of the impact of the drug trade on the border region by analyzing important social practices in Starr County relating to drug abuse, policing and the criminal justice system, youth socialization and family life. Through ethnography I present the devastating effects of the drug trade and border policing on this Mexican American border community in rural South Texas.
text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

38

LeFlore, Elizabeth Hawthorne 1972. "The force of devotion : performing a transnational spirituality." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/18447.

Full text

Abstract:

This dissertation explores the role of popular religion in a transnational community by examining the performance of devotion to local patron saints, virgin mothers and sacred crosses. Annually in May, Empalme Escobedo, Guanajuato, Mexico celebrates San Isidro Labrador (the patron saint of farmers), Maria Auxiliadora (the patroness of railroad laborers) and the Santa Cruz de Picacho (Sacred Cross of Picacho). Following the celebrations many of the male participants in the fiestas travel to Texas to work in agriculture or the service industry. Consequently, devotion to the saint(s) moves with migrants back and forth across the Mexican-U.S. border. My thesis is that the force of devotion gives voice to the tension between the desire for solidarity (experienced through fiesta performance) and the erosion of the community by migration (experienced as absence and dissolution). What I call the force of devotion refers to the social processes, expressive culture, continuity and change that make up a transnational community's system of beliefs and practices and enable folks to understand, explain or cope with everyday life. The force of devotion is the key analytic frame through which I interpret the articulations of spirituality and popular religion, impermanence and fragmentation, absence and hope. The central questions posed in this dissertation emerge from the stories folks in Empalme Escobedo tell about their lives. Consultants talk about their devotion as an expression of faith, a necessary guidance through daily life and a symbol of hope. Tracking the force of devotion exposes social relationships, emotional and intimate experiences, desires and fears. Memory of and participation in the fiestas not only symbolize the force of devotion, but also serve as a connection to separated family members and place of origin. The everyday reality of the absence of loved ones and the fragmentation of the community as a result of migration amplifies the human desire for sociability and solidarity. The fiesta performance provides a space in which the consciousness of communal boundaries is heightened, thereby confirming and strengthening the experience of the social and the force of devotion.
text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

39

He, Yu Aragaki Corinne. "Effects of health disparities on Helicobacter pylori infection among children on the United States-Mexico border." 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1342744491&sid=8&Fmt=2&clientId=68716&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

Full text

Abstract:

Thesis (M.P.H.)--University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, 2007.
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-04, page: 1936. Adviser: Corinne C. Aragaki. Includes bibliographical references.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

40

Zerlentes, Becky. "Modeling production externalities in the maquila industry." 2003. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/60936008.html.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

41

Cervantes, Soon Claudia Garbiela. "Schooling in times of dystopia : empowering education for Juárez women." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3500.

Full text

Abstract:

Young women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico are coming of age in an era of feminicides, drug wars, impunity, and fear. This ethnographic study examines the ways in which Preparatoria Altavista, a public high school, in one of the most marginalized areas of Juárez, attempts to empower subaltern young women through its critical and social justice philosophy of education. The study draws from critical pedagogy, socio-cultural theory, and feminist scholarship to offer a unique analysis of how hegemonic ideas are resisted and/or inscribed pedagogically, politically, and institutionally at Altavista. Secondly, the study examines how the school’s constructions of democratic and social justice education interact with the current dystopic context of Juárez and discourses about Juárez women to provide a framework with which a group of young women author their identities and practice forms of resistance. The ethnographic fieldwork took place in the 2009-2010 academic year. The methods included unstructured ethnographic interviews with teachers, administrators, and numerous students, as well as semi-structured interviews and an auto-photography technique with nine girls. The study identifies three interrelated aspects that characterize the transformative pedagogy of Preparatoria Altavista: freedom and autonomy, authentic caring relationships, and the cultivation of critical discourse and activism. Together, these core values promote the school’s ultimate goal for its students – autogestión, or the ability to self-author empowered identities; read their world; and initiate and develop socially transformative projects. Considering the school’s context, as well as the many challenges inherent in the dystopic Juárez of today, the study also identifies a typology of four different paths to the girls’ identity and agency development: the Redirectors, the Reinventors, the Redefiners, and the Refugees. This typology is based on various ways and degrees to which the young women in this study authored the self as they negotiated the messages from the multiple figured worlds that they inhabit. The study seeks to counter sensationalist, criminalizing, and dooming narratives about Juárez youth, as well as stereotypical and objectifying depictions of Juárez women by offering a nuanced analysis of their experiences, perspectives, identities, and forms of agency. The study also seeks to offer a language of possibility and hope for urban schools and contexts of civil unrest through critical pedagogy.
text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

We offer discounts on all premium plans for authors whose works are included in thematic literature selections. Contact us to get a unique promo code!