American crossings : border politics in the Western Hemisphere

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Label

American crossings : border politics in the Western Hemisphere

Title remainder

border politics in the Western Hemisphere

Statement of responsibility

edited by Maiah Jaskoski, Arturo C. Sotomayor, and Harold A. Trinkunas

Contributor

• Sotomayor, Arturo C.
• Trinkunas, Harold A.
• Jaskoski, Maiah, 1977-

Editor

• Trinkunas, Harold A.
• Sotomayor, Arturo C.
• Jaskoski, Maiah, 1977-

Subject

• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference
• USA
• America
• America -- Foreign relations
• Borderlands
• Borderlands -- America
• Boundaries
• Boundaries
• Boundary disputes
• Boundary disputes
• Diplomatic relations
• Electronic books
• Geopolitics
• Geopolitics -- America
• Geopolitik
• Grenzgebiet
• Grenzpolitik
• Mexiko
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government | General
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government | National

Language

eng

Summary

Annotation

Member of

• UPCC book collections on Project MUSE, Political Science and Policy Studies
• Ebook Central Academic Complete
• EBSCO eBook Public Library Collection-North America

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

320.1/2

Index

index present

Language note

English

LC call number

JC323

LC item number

.A58 2015eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Summary expansion

In summer 2014, US agencies responsible for the border with Mexico were overwhelmed by tens of thousands of unaccompanied children arriving from Central America. Unprepared to address this unexpected kind of migrant, the US government deployed troops to carry out a new border mission: the feeding, care, and housing of this wave of children. This event highlights the complex social, economic, and political issues that arise along borders. In American Crossings, nine scholars consider the complicated modern history of borders in the Western Hemisphere, examining borders as geopolitical boundaries, key locations for internal security, spaces for international trade, and areas where national and community identities are defined. Among the provocative questions raised are: Why are Peru and Chile inclined to legalize territory disputes through the International Court of Justice, undermining their militaries? Why has economic integration in the "Tri-Border Area" of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay increased illicit trade supporting transnational terrorist groups? And how has a weak Ecuadorian presence at the EcuadorColombia border encouraged Colombian guerrillas to enforce the international borderline?