scholarly journals Straddling the Wall: Comparative Framing of Trump’s Border Wall in U.S. & Mexican Newspapers

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Nathian Shae Rodriguez ◽  
Mariana De Maio
Keyword(s):  
El Paso ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Ciudad Juarez ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Online Newspaper ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
Decent Life ◽  
Political Contention ◽  
New Construction ◽  
International Border

Donald Trump’s most notorious promise before and during his presidency was the construction of a border wall. The issues surrounding new construction of Donald Trump’s border wall (both physically and rhetorically) are complex and the outcomes are difficult to predict. The study examines how Trump’s border wall was framed in online newspaper publications of the international border cities of San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico, and in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Specifically, the study employs a comparative framing analysis using the John Agnew’s (2008) theoretical lens of borders as equivocal spaces of dwelling that bring about both benefit and harm — the standard of a decent life. The analysis revealed the frames of: Mexico will pay for the wall; DACA as leverage; political contention; protest and dissention; environmental impact; immigration package; separation and divisiveness; safety and security; and economic consequences. A majority of the content published in the U.S. was produced locally, however, most of the content published in Mexico was from news agencies, except for the opinion pieces that were locally produced for outlets on both side of the border.

scholarly journals Mujeres, políticas públicas y política: los caminos globales de Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua-El Paso, Texas

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (37) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Staudt ◽  
Beatriz Vera
Keyword(s):  
El Paso ◽  
Ciudad Juarez ◽  
Las Mujeres

En este artículo se abordan temas selectos de políticas públicas, que dividen y unen a las mujeres en la frontera México-Estados Unidos, concentrados en el área metropolitana de Ciudad Juárez-El Paso, que conforma una "economía interdependiente", con una población superior a dos millones de personas, cuya mayoría comparte una herencia mexicana. De esta forma, se analiza una perspectiva compleja: la economía global en la que las maquiladoras de Ciudad Juárez están a la vanguardia; los cambios ideológicos de derecha en los gobiernos de México y Estados Unidos; con gobiernos divididos en filiación partidista así como en materia del federalismo, éste practicado en forma diferente por ambos, y en los cuales las voces de las mujeres tienen poca notoriedad. Sin embargo, ellas se organizan en grupos que representan sus intereses, aunque sus voces han sido marginadas en la sociedad y en la acción legislativa. Existen pocas organizaciones binacionales de mujeres, con algunas excepciones en los aspectos de salud y violencia.

Binational emissions trading in an international air shed: The case of El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez

1989 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard G. Applegate ◽  
C. Richard Bath ◽  
Jeffery T. Brannon
Keyword(s):  
Emissions Trading ◽  
El Paso ◽  
Ciudad Juarez

“Hunting for Chinamen”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Lim
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
El Paso ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Chinese Immigrants ◽  
The United States ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Immigration Law ◽  
Ciudad Juarez ◽  
Railroad Workers ◽  
Chinese Exclusion

Through a close, on-the-ground reading of U.S. immigration records and newspaper accounts, this chapter shows how Chinese immigrants repeatedly improvised new cross-racial strategies to gain entry into the United States during the era of Chinese Exclusion. Their actions not only forced local immigration officials to continually adjust their own practices in response, but to focus increasing attention on racial differentiation. In the process of distinguishing Chinese from Mexican, and rooting out smuggling rings that depended upon the cooperation of Chinese sponsors and immigrants, Mexican guides, and black railroad workers, these street-level bureaucrats not only enforced U.S. immigration law, but did so through practices that rendered multiracial relations and identities suspect and illegitimate. Moreover, as immigration officials and the immigrants they sought to police drew the attention of the federal government to the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez border, they brought the American state into the borderlands. The chapter thus connects local enforcement practices at the border with the broader goals of federal immigration law and nation-building at the turn of the century.

Empires and Immigrants

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Lim
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
El Paso ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Ciudad Juarez ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Demographic Shift ◽  
International Boundary ◽  
Diverse Groups

This chapter frames the nineteenth century borderlands as a theater of movement that had long been marked by imperial contestations and diverse migrations. Native American, colonial, Mexican, and American migrations shaped the region, keeping territorial boundaries porous, and racial and national identities blurred. Following the transformation of the indigenous borderlands to a capitalist borderlands, the chapter traces the seismic demographic shift that drove the region’s rapid industrialization; as the borderlands connected into national, transnational, and global circuits of migration, and oceanic lines fed back into railway connections, white, black, Mexican, and Chinese immigrants descended on the border from all directions. Focusing on the multiple boundaries that intersected at the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez border – namely, the international boundary as well as the limits of Jim Crow that ended where Texas met New Mexico – this chapter shows how and why the late 19th century borderlands looked so promising for these diverse groups. It begins to develop a transborder framework for understanding immigration, emphasizing how the narrowing of economic opportunities, political rights, and social freedoms in both the United States and Mexico contributed to such diverse men and women coming together in the borderlands.

Monorails as international transborder links. The El Paso-Ciudad Juárez monorail proposal, 1964–1976

2020 ◽  
pp. 002252662097117
Author(s):  
Lawrence Douglas Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Public Transit ◽  
El Paso ◽  
Mass Transit ◽  
Border Security ◽  
Ciudad Juarez ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Transport Project ◽  
International Transport

The paper uses primary and secondary sources to analyse the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez binational monorail project from 1964 to 1976 within the overall context of the growth of the cities as urban centres and the development of cross-border public transit links. The most significant of the earlier ties was the international streetcar line, which functioned for over 90 years and was a predecessor to the monorail project. The paper examines the complexities of negotiating and building an international transport project of this nature as well as the principal business and political directors of the El Paso International Monorail Corporation (IMC) and its Juárez counterpart, Monorriel Internacional (MI). It concludes with an assessment of the current outlook for cross-border mass transit projects in the light of the notable increment in USA border security and inspection controls of recent decades.

scholarly journals Border Residents’ Perceptions of Crime and Security in El Paso, Texas

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernesto Castañeda ◽  
Casey Chiappetta
Keyword(s):  
El Paso ◽  
Large City ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Ciudad Juarez ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Perceptions Of Crime ◽  
Official Crime ◽  
The U.S

Research has continued to show the overall safety of the U.S. border region contrary to the widespread belief about the insecurity of the U.S.-Mexico border and frequent claims for the need to secure the border in order to prevent the spread of violence into the rest of the country. Rarely do we ask how border residents feel about safety and crime, which could shed significant light on the claims that the border is an insecure warzone posing a threat to the entire country. While calls to secure national borders are common, outsiders’ perceptions of an unsafe border are not supported by official crime rates and statistics, Border Patrol apprehensions, or the everyday experiences of people in American cities along the U.S.-Mexico border. This paper investigates the perception of crime and security, as expressed by the residents of El Paso, Texas, a large city located along the U.S.-Mexico border and directly across from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Data come from a National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded survey that asked 919 residents about their perceptions of crime, sense of security and safety in their neighborhood and the city in general. The results show that the overwhelming majority of border city residents feel safe and that those who are undocumented and raised in El Paso are the most likely to report feeling safe or very safe. We also find that the foreign-born population had a statistically significant lower felony conviction rate than those who were U.S.-born, an important qualifier in discussions over immigration and its connection with violence and crime. Contrary to sensationalized claims about border violence, residents of El Paso do not display any of the sense of insecurity experienced in neighboring Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. We present hypotheses about possible causes for these low levels of violence in the U.S.-side of the border and discuss the dissonance between the reality on the border and perception outside of the border region.

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