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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"US–Mexico border"”.
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Mosquito-Borne Disease Prevention: Building Resilient Communities in the US-Mexico Border
… threats, particularly in regions like the US-Mexico border where the Aedes aegypti mosquito is expanding due to climate and socioeconomic changes. Recent outbreaks, such as the 2014 dengue surge in Yuma, Arizona, and Sonora, Mexico, and the first locally acquired dengue case in Maricopa …
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Romance, revolution and regulation: colonialism and the US-Mexico border in American Cold War film.
… number of American films set on and around the US-Mexico border of any period of the twentieth century. This thesis investigates why this concentration of films appeared at this point in time. It argues that rather than responding to the changes in policy and practice along the borderline that …
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Cooperatives as a Possible Answer for Women Living with Violence and Poverty on the US/Mexico Border
… influences creates a fragile environment for sustainability and empowerment. Specifically, the thesis examines the complex inter-relation of a non-profit and the members of a cooperative and how can economic, human and social capital development can be planned for alongside significant changes.
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She Will Be the Last of Us
She Will Be the Last of Us is a collection of closely interwoven short stories narrated by four generations of Mexican women. They are all members of the fictitious Belmonte family, once a stronghold in Mexican politics and high society, now nearing extinction. The collection explores the idea of …
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A 2007 aircraft-based study of plumes from biomass burning origin from Mexico and Central America advected over south Texas and the western Gulf of Mexico.
… of purposes such as clearing of forests and brushland for agricultural use; control of weeds; production of charcoal; and energy production for cooking and heating (Crutzen and Andreae, 1990). The Baylor Institute for Air Science (BIAS) equipped an aircraft to measure trace gases and aerosols …
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Modeling Production Externalities in the Maquila Industry
… joint Gross Domestic Product near 11 trillion USD, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) represents the world's largest trading bloc in a global economy of 40.7 trillion USD. Under the current agreement, US Mexico trade has strengthened to the point where Mexico is now the United …
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Speaking in Wild Tongues: The Borderlands of Eudora Welty and Alice Walker
In Borderlands/La Frontera Gloria Anzaldúa describes her experience undergoing a dental procedure as a battle between her wild tongue and the dentist. Beginning with a discussion of Anzaldúa’s concept of the wild tongue, this project asks how writers across the US South depict unruly tongues and …
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The Portrayal of Central American Migrants in North American Media: A Critical Discourse Analysis
… their home countries heading northbound to the US-Mexico border in a quest to seek asylum gained international attention. Faced with unimaginable threats, due to the imposition of neoliberal ideology that forced their migration, the asylum seekers were met by the United States’ border patrol …
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Investigating the Feasibility of Community Health Workers as Teleaudiology Patient-Site Facilitators: A Strategy to Improve Access to Hearing Aid Services for Older Adults
… there are significant disparities in the use of hearing aids by race/ethnicity, rural/urban status, and income, representing underlying access barriers. The prevailing model of hearing aid service delivery is clinic-based and private-pay, posing multiple obstacles for potentially millions …
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Visualizing global drug flows : transnational connections to the overdose crisis in New England, USA
… and (b) naloxone, an opioid overdose antidote used in the public health crisis of drug overdose deaths in Massachusetts, USA. Beginning locally in Massachusetts, I filmed parents reflecting on losing children to overdoses, first responders administering naloxone to save overdose victims, and …
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Promoting Resilience in Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking and Refugee Minors
… from Central America were apprehended at the US-Mexico border. These unaccompanied minors are vulnerable, and the traumas they face impact their mental health. As such, it is important to design mental health interventions that promote resilience and address the unique mental health needs of …
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Crossing Myriad Borders: A Dimensional Analysis of the Migration and Health Experiences of Indigenous Oaxacan Women
… feminization of the migration of ethnic indigenous women, such as Mixtecs, Zapotecs and Triquis from the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, are altering the dynamics and configuration of traditional Mexican migration, making it especially significant for the health professions. Informed by a …
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Sources and Transport of Black Carbon at the United States-Mexico Border near San Diego-Tijuana
At international border areas that suffer from poor quality, assessment of pollutant sources and transport across the border is important for designing effective air quality management strategies. As part of the Cal-Mex 2010 field campaign at the US-Mexico border in San Diego and Tijuana, we …
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NAFTA's distributional effect on Mexico: three essays in regional economics
… migration and the distribution of wages in Mexico from 1980 to 2010. In the first essay, we use municipal level data from the Mexican Population and Economic censuses to explain the regional distribution of the benefits from trade in Mexico after the NAFTA. To explicitly identify the effect …
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Embodying the Americas through Antigone and Medea
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Tracking urban growth and composition along the western portion of the U.S. - Mexico border: 1985 -2010
… of global urbanization can be seen in the US-Mexico border region. This dissertation follows the growth and composition of urban areas along the western portion of the border from 1985 - 2010 through three chapters. First, the remote sensing technique Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture …
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An Inferentially Robust Look at Two Competing Explanations for the Surge in Unauthorized Migration From Central America
… of Central American apprehensions by the U.S. Border Patrol. Explanations for this surge in apprehensions have been split between two leading hypotheses. Most academic scholars, immigrant advocates, progressive media outlets, and human rights organizations identify poverty and violence (the …