Life, death, and in-between on the U.S.-Mexico border : así es la vida
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Life, death, and in-between on the U.S.-Mexico border : así es la vida
Bergin & Garvey, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Loustaunau and Sanchez-Bane combine their many years of association and collaboration dealing with health issues in the U.S.-Mexico border area, to bring together a series of chapters illustrating that asi es la vida, that's life, need not indicate a fatalistic acceptance that poverty, sickness, misery, and misfortune must be taken in stride. The authors of the chapters have researched, studied, worked with, or have been borderlanders themselves.
The chapters focus on the impact of the social structure, and on the power and determination of people to change their conditions for the better, increasing their choices and enlarging their worlds. They look beyond political and economic barriers to find the spark in the human spirit that must be identified and nurtured to produce a better life for the benefit of peoples and nations on both sides of the border, and to nourish the third culture as a bridge between nations. The authors note the dangers and pitfalls along the way, and the need for more realistic policies and programs to empower people to define their own problems, and to participate in fashioning the solutions.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Xavier Leus Introduction Demographic Factors Affecting the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Status by Federico Gerardo de Cosio and AndREs Boadella The Border Colonias and the Problem of Communication: Applying Anthropology for Outreach by Duncan Earle Life Histories of Four Chicano Heroin Injecting Drug Users in Laredo, Texas by Avelardo VAldez and Alberto G. Mata Dangerous Relationships: Effects of Early Exposure to Violence in Women's Lives on the Border by Joao B. Ferreira-Pinto, Rebeca L. Ramos, and Alberto Mata The Difference a Line Makes: Women's Lives in Douglas, Arizona and Agua Prieta, Sonora by Ellen R. Hansen Creating a Future for Hispanic Mothers and Daughters on the U.S.-Mexico Border by Josefina Villamil Tinajero and Dee Ann Spencer Living with HIV/AIDS in a Rural Border County by Donna Castaneda Community-Based Health Promotion vs. Community Health Advisors: Prevention Works, When They Do It by Mary Sanchez Bane and Eva Moya GuzMAn Rural Health on the Border and New Mexico's Models for Care, Community Empowerment, and Cooperation by Martha Oehmke Loustaunau The Medical Care Systems in Mexico and the United States: Convergence or Deterioration? The View from the Border by David C. Warner The Sunland Park/Camino Real Partnership: Landfill Politics in a Border Community by Ellen Rosell Community-University Partnerships Addressing Environmental Issues along the U.S.-Mexico Border by James VanDerslice, Amy K. Liebman, and Theresa L. Byrd Afterword Index
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