Sökning: "U.S. Mexico border"

Hittade 4 uppsatser innehållade orden U.S. Mexico border.

1. 1. Countries Divided, Shared Pollution: Whose Mess is it? A Case Study on the issue of Transnational Border Sewage in the Tijuana River Valley Watershed

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Författare :Caylie Johnsen; [2018]
   Nyckelord :San Diego; Tijuana; Border Sewage; Transnational Sewage; Unequal Exchange; Environmental Load Displacement; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis critically examines the issue of shared border sewage between San Diego and Tijuana. In light of the recent sewage spill in February of 2017, dumping 143 million gallons of raw sewage into the Tijuana River, the phenomena of border sewage in the transnational environment of the Tijuana River Watershed has been a topic of interest in local and international contexts; raising questions of how this issue came about, what is causing it, and why it’s still happening. LÄS MER

3. 2. Intersectionality and the Vulnerability of Irregular Migrant Women to Sexual Assault: the Journey and Arrival to the U.S./Mexico Border

   Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Författare :Laura Marie Clark; [2017-08-09]
   Nyckelord :intersectionality; irregular migration; U.S. Mexico border; migrant women; sexual assault; militarization;

   Sammanfattning : This research looks at the sexual assault of irregular migrant women on the journey and arrival to the United States/Mexico border from an intersectional perspective. It aims to analyze this topic through understanding cultural issues and changes at the border which have fomented abuse of migrants’ human rights, and combines the academic research with data regarding irregular migration, militarization of the border, and gender statistics. LÄS MER

4. 3. Resistance bodies on the México-U.S.border : Peripheral feminisms

   Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för etnologi, religionshistoria och genusvetenskap

   Författare :Montserrat Lolo García; [2016]
   Nyckelord :Reistència; feminicidi; feminismes perifèrics; cis heteropatriarcat i context capitalista; Resistance; feminicide; peripheral feminisms; cis hetero-patriarchal and capitalist context.; Motstånd; kvinnomord; perifera feminismer; cis heteropatriarkat och kapitalistisk kontext; Resistencia; feminicidio; feminismos periféricos; cis heteropatriarcado y contexto capitalista.;

   Sammanfattning : The present study shows and analyses how bodies codified as women’s bodies can resist in an extreme violence context situated in Ciudad Juárez on the México-U.S. border. To be resistant or to make resistance in these circumstances can be represented in different ways, through social and civic movements, art, literature and weapons. LÄS MER

5. 4. 'The Fear of Amexica' A Discourse Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security's Construction of an American National Identity

   Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Författare :Sanna Klemetti; [2009]
   Nyckelord :The U.S.; Mexico; border fence; nation-state; American national identity; The American Creed; illegal immigration; ; other?; The Department of Homeland Security Discourse analysis; Humanities; Humaniora; Social sciences; Samhällsvetenskaper; Human rights; Mänskliga rättigheter; Social Sciences; Law and Political Science;

   Sammanfattning : The United States is having an identity crisis concerning it's borders. The terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, raised concerns about the nations borders. Year 2002, The Department of Homeland Security was created with the purpose to secure the nation from potential threats related to the borders. LÄS MER