Standing on Common Ground - The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland

Standing on Common Ground locates the roots of today's debates over border enforcement in the Sunbelt's pan-ethnic and transnational history, as cross-border ties in the 1940s among entrepreneurs and politicians, and a flourishing cultural traffic among tourists and students, gave way to economic instability and illegal labor migration.

About the author

Geraldo L. Cadava is Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University.

Summary

Standing on Common Ground locates the roots of today's debates over border enforcement in the Sunbelt's pan-ethnic and transnational history, as cross-border ties in the 1940s among entrepreneurs and politicians, and a flourishing cultural traffic among tourists and students, gave way to economic instability and illegal labor migration.

Product details

• Authors: Associate Professor of History Geraldo L ( Cadava, Associate Professor of History Geraldo L (Northwestern University) Cadava, Geraldo L Cadava, Geraldo L. Cadava, Geraldo L. Cadava
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9780674970892
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97089-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Mexico, History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, 20th Century, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Migration, immigration & emigration, Local History, Social and cultural history, Migration, immigration and emigration, General and world history, History of the Americas, US West, Western & Pacific Coast states