Es una obra persistente en el esfuerzo por revelar lo que sucede en esa pequea parte de un territorio compartido, en la que a pesar de los avances del gobierno en cuanto al marco jurdico, y a las bondades otorgadas por mltiples organizaciones humanitarias nacionales e internacionales a los migrantes, parece haberse detenido el tiempo. El fenmeno es tozudo, ah sigue, la poblacin flotante cada da se incrementa, las modalidades de enganchar a los migrantes se diversifica, es ms agresiva; entonces, surgen las preguntas existe un lmite para el sufrimiento humano? Le otorgan los actores en sus interrelaciones, al sufrimiento humano, la mnima conceptualizacin tica, cuando se observa que en algunos hogares, en su interior, existen acciones que conocemos como inmorales? Tiene sentido real la vida ara ellos? Qu sucede con la conciencia moral individual y colectiva de los decisores de polticas? Es esta una narrativa que si bien en principio se inspira en la realidad, la autora se vale del conocimiento del contexto y una imaginacin extraordinaria, para dar forma a una obra sin precedentes. Lic. En Historia y Contadura; Maestra en Filosofa; Dra. En Ciencias Polticas y Sociales; Postdoctorante en Desarrollo Regional; Perfil Deseable PROMEP; Miembro del RCEA-CONACYT; Medalla Benito Jurez a la Investigacin, Autora de mltiples libros y artculos nacionales e internacionales, Catedrtica y Funcionaria Pblica.

Es una obra persistente en el esfuerzo por revelar lo que sucede en esa pequeña parte de un territorio compartido, en la que a pesar de los avances del gobierno en cuanto al marco jurídico, y a las bondades otorgadas por múltiples organizaciones humanitarias nacionales e internacionales a los migrantes, parece haberse detenido el tiempo. El fenómeno es tozudo, ahí sigue, la población flotante cada día se incrementa, las modalidades de "enganchar" a los migrantes se diversifica, es más agresiva; entonces, surgen las preguntas ¿existe un límite para el sufrimiento humano? ¿Le otorgan los actores en sus interrelaciones, al sufrimiento humano, la mínima conceptualización ética, cuando se observa que en algunos hogares, en su interior, existen acciones que conocemos como inmorales? ¿Tiene sentido real la vida ara ellos? ¿Qué sucede con la conciencia moral individual y colectiva de los decisores de políticas? Es esta una narrativa que si bien en principio se inspira en la realidad, la autora se vale del conocimiento del contexto y una imaginación extraordinaria, para dar forma a una obra sin precedentes. Lic. En Historia y Contaduría; Maestra en Filosofía; Dra. En Ciencias Políticas y Sociales; Postdoctorante en Desarrollo Regional; Perfil Deseable PROMEP; Miembro del RCEA-CONACYT; Medalla Benito Juárez a la Investigación, Autora de múltiples libros y artículos nacionales e internacionales, Catedrática y Funcionaria Pública.

This book is a progressive work in the effort of revealing what is happening in a small part of a shared territory, where despite the government's progress in creating legal frameworks, in addition to the aid and support granted by many national and international humanitarian organizations to migrants, time seems to have grinded to a halt. The phenomenon remains persistent. The floating population increases day by day. The modalities of snaring migrants have become diversified and more aggressive; but questions arise: is there a limit to human suffering? Would you give the victims in their interrelationships, human suffering, the minimum ethical conceptualization, even when you know immorality dwells inside some of their homes? Would life still make sense to them? What happened to the individual and collective moral conscience of policymakers? This is a narrative wherein, while in principle reflects reality, the author used her knowledge of the context and extraordinary imagination to give life to an unprecedented work.

In this inspirational and unflinchingly honest memoir, acclaimed author Reyna Grande describes her childhood torn between the United States and Mexico, and shines a light on the experiences, fears, and hopes of those who choose to make the harrowing journey across the border. Reyna Grande vividly brings to life her tumultuous early years in this “compelling...unvarnished, resonant” (BookPage) story of a childhood spent torn between two parents and two countries. As her parents make the dangerous trek across the Mexican border to “El Otro Lado” (The Other Side) in pursuit of the American dream, Reyna and her siblings are forced into the already overburdened household of their stern grandmother. When their mother at last returns, Reyna prepares for her own journey to “El Otro Lado” to live with the man who has haunted her imagination for years, her long-absent father. Funny, heartbreaking, and lyrical, The Distance Between Us poignantly captures the confusion and contradictions of childhood, reminding us that the joys and sorrows we experience are imprinted on the heart forever, calling out to us of those places we first called home. Also available in Spanish as La distancia entre nosotros.

With the railroad's arrival in the late nineteenth century, immigrants of all colors rushed to the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, transforming the region into a booming international hub of economic and human activity. Following the stream of Mexican, Chinese, and African American migration, Julian Lim presents a fresh study of the multiracial intersections of the borderlands, where diverse peoples crossed multiple boundaries in search of new economic opportunities and social relations. However, as these migrants came together in ways that blurred and confounded elite expectations of racial order, both the United States and Mexico resorted to increasingly exclusionary immigration policies in order to make the multiracial populations of the borderlands less visible within the body politic, and to remove them from the boundaries of national identity altogether. Using a variety of English- and Spanish-language primary sources from both sides of the border, Lim reveals how a borderlands region that has traditionally been defined by Mexican-Anglo relations was in fact shaped by a diverse population that came together dynamically through work and play, in the streets and in homes, through war and marriage, and in the very act of crossing the border.

Globalization has encouraged worldwide mobility, intensified migration and supported growing interconnectedness through new technologies; it has therefore substantially contributed to the development of so-called transnational spaces. This volume focuses on transnational spaces which should not be understood as locations on a map or as sealed containers, but instead as relational social areas which are composed of various relationships. Transnationalization increases liberation and/or emancipation from place because social relations overcome physical space and local, regional and national boundaries. As a consequence, a reconfiguration of social, cultural, political and economic scopes of action occurs. This volume reveals that for people in general and for migration movements in particular, new borders have been established in many places all over the world. The biographies of global actors and migrants reference this alteration of space. Additionally this volume calls special attention to border regions and their social configurations. Borders appear as narratives which can have an enormous impact on social structures. This book further deals with different aspects and various tensions having to do with local and global change, interplay and interdependence. Globalization leads to development that often ignores regional needs, supports the continuation of post-colonial power and maintains hegemonic dominance.