¿Globalizar Tenochtitlán? Geo-política feminista: la ciudad de México como frontera

Me di cuenta de que la ciudad se había convertido en una frontera cuando vi sus tatuajes: por todas partes, grafitis como los de Los Ángeles marcando símbolos y cicatrices a lo largo de las paredes y los edificios de donde el poder y la resistencia surgen a diario en la ciudad de México. Dicha ciudad es hoy en día tanto margen como centro del poder estatal nacional: la ciudad y sus residentes son parte de una frontera cuyos contornos oscilan entre el estilo de la globalización estadounidense hasta los de la civilización indígena mesoamericana. Visto así, el grafiti es un síntoma de conflictos mucho más amplios respecto a símbolos, significados, identidades y autoridad en un creciente espacio urbano transnacional y transcultural. Lo anterior no significa que la frontera México-americana tradicional de Juárez-EI Paso, por ejemplo, se haya reubicado en la capital, sino que otra frontera ha florecido en el corazón del país

Chapter 2. Whose Security? Dilemmas of US Border Security in the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands

INTRODUCTION: INEFFECTIVE US BORDER CRACKDOWNS AND ACCELERATING CRIME Recent US government crackdowns on illicit crossings of the southern border with Mexico have helped to spawn a revolution in social networking among groups concerned with cross-border migration and national and human security. Current US border-security policy and practice have also helped to trigger crime waves associated with human and narcotics trafficking, which have in turn diminished the personal security of people wh..

Borderlands

Border security has been high on public-policy agendas in Europe and North America since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York City and on the headquarters of the American military in Washington DC. Governments are now confronted with managing secure borders, a policy objective that in this era of increased free trade and globalization must compete with intense cross-border flows of people and goods. Border-security policies must enable security personnel to identify, or filter out, dangerous individuals and substances from among the millions of travelers and tons of goods that cross borders daily, particularly in large cross-border urban regions. This book addresses this gap between security needs and an understanding of borders and borderlands. Specifically, the chapters in this volume ask policy-makers to recognize that two fundamental elements define borders and borderlands: first, human activities (the agency and agent power of individual ties and forces spanning a border), and second, the broader social processes that frame individual action, such as market forces, government activities (law, regulations, and policies), and the regional culture and politics of a borderland. Borders emerge as the historically and geographically variable expression of human ties exercised within social structures of varying force and influence, and it is the interplay and interdependence between people's incentives to act and the surrounding structures (i.e. constructed social processes that contain and constrain individual action) that determine the effectiveness of border security policies. This book argues that the nature of borders is to be porous, which is a problem for security policy makers. It shows that when for economic, cultural, or political reasons human activities increase across a border and borderland, governments need to increase cooperation and collaboration with regard to security policies, if only to avoid implementing mismatched security policies