Latin America's Global Border System: An Introduction

ISBN-13: 9781032068817 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 304 str.

Beatriz Zepeda; Fernando Carrión Mena; Francisco Enríquez Bermeo

Opis

Latin America’s Global Border System is the opening volume in the first collection of academic works devoted exclusively to borders and illegal markets in Latin America.

Recenzje

"This volume is an illustration of the collaborative, multidisciplinary work that today's great problems demand. It is in fact the capstone of an important work that began with a state-of-the-art dialog on Latin American borders and their ever-changing character, emphasizing three of the most central continental issues: Violence and crime, human rights, and urban development. It stands to lay a bridge for communicating Latin American border scholarship to researchers around the world."

Tony Payan, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez

"Borders have undergone a profound metamorphosis. For most of the 20th century they were imaginary lines that were easy to cross. In the 21st century they are still open to illicit flows but have filled with obstacles and walls for people. The need to understand this transformation frames the splendid book edited by Zepeda, Carrión and Enríquez. This is an indispensable reading."

Sergio Aguayo, El Colegio de México

"The book offers a broad overview of Latin American borders, analyzing the illegal practices present in these regions. The studies cover the origin of these practices, the emblematic territorial disputes and point to the limited presence of state institutions, which favors environments of violence, as well as contraband, and human smuggling and trafficking among other critical processes. Latin American borders are a strategic priority for the modernization of the countries of the region and their development is a necessary alternative to illicit global challenges. This book offers an essential analysis to understand criminal dynamics in the global scenario and Latin America's role in them."

Tonatiuh Guillén, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

"Latin America's Global Border System provides an eye-opening account of the evolving borders in Latin America. It prepares the reader with important knowledge on how borders can be understood in the globalized world and proves an important addition to the field of border studies."

Carlos Daniel Gutierrez Mannix, Department of Political Science, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Spis treści

Introduction: The Permanent Construction of Borders in Latin America  Part 1: Border Subsystems  1.1: Producing Countries  1. The Global Border System and Illegal Markets in Peru: Notes for a Research Agenda  2. Bolivia: The Tensions, Challenges and Prospects of the Border Subsystem  1.2: Platform-Type Countries  3. Ecuador’s Global Border Subsystem: From "Island of Peace" to International Crime Platform  4. Borders, Crime, and State Responses in Argentina  1.3: Strategic Countries  5. Guatemala’s Border System: A First Approach  6. Mexico’s Cross-Border Subsystem: Cocaine Trafficking and Violence on the Northern Border  1.4: Multifunctional Countries  7. Projecting Borders across the Atlantic: The Case of Italy from a Latin American Perspective  8. Brazil and Its Borders: History and Limits of a Sovereign State  Part 2: Thematic Axes  9. Illegal Markets: New Institutional Architecture and Its Territorial Expression in Latin America  10. Cross-Border Urban Complexes. The Urban Morphology of a Global Structure  11. A Gender Perspective in the Study of Latin American Border Systems