Contested Terrain: The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

The majority of undocumented Mexican migrants enter the United States for the first time with the assistance of a paid

The U.S.-Mexico borderlands—the territory running about 30 miles along either side of the 2,000-mile line stretching from Tijuana/San Diego on

Though research on the U.S.-Mexico border has a short history, the history of cultural studies of the border is even

"If there is such a thing as a good coup, this one is winning raves in the bazaars of Rawalpindi."

"The border," comment the editors in their introduction to The U.S.-Mexico Border, "now represents a global crossroads in which the

By now, the murdered women of Ciudad Juárez are such an old story that the locals hardly pay attention anymore.

Carlos Castaño is not a name that comes up much in the debate over whether to escalate U.S. drug-war aid

Haiti's Parliament building stands empty, except for a few deputies off in a side room who recline in their armchairs,

On a typical Saturday morning in the United States, millions of people will be relaxing at home, watching television or

On the eve of the transfer of the Panama Canal, U.S. conservatives are invoking the specter of imminent chaos in

SANTIAGO—It has not been a banner year for Chile's former military tyrants. October 16, 1998, saw the arrest in London

The image of the "border crosser" dominates much of recent border studies and theory. As highlighted in works of such