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Language contact in two border communities in Burkina Faso and Ghana. Lexical borrowings from French, English and African languages

Beyogle, RichardUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2015

… and degree of education in a multilingual border community where English and French are official state languages and Dagara is the shared local language. Dagara is a language spoken by about 1,400,000 people in the Northwestern corner of Ghana, the Southwestern part of Burkina Faso and the …

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Is Mozambique the new south african frontier? The socio-economic impact of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area on the livelihood strategies of border communities in the Pafuri administrative post

Bocchino, Clara <1975>Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna2008

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The Dynamics of Border Disputes in State Making: The Fragile Borderlands in the Northern Region between Nigeria and Benin Republic in West Africa

Tarfa, Usman F.University of Bradford2021

African borders were arbitrarily drawn by the European powers. The post-independence African leaders agreed to maintain the inherited arbitrary partitions as discarding them would open doors for more crisis between African states. However, sixty years after independence, border disputes continued …

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Border Biomes: Coexistence and Interference on American Migration Trails

Vazquez Enriquez, Emily CelesteCornell University2020

Framed within the fields of Border and Migration Studies and the Environmental Humanities, Border Biomes: Coexistence and Interference on American Migration Trails, examines how 21st -century Mexican, Mexican American, and Chicanx literature and art depict dynamic, unstable geographies that defy …

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The Role of Social Capital in a Community Health Worker Model for Grassroots Advocacy

Jacobs, LaurelThe University of Arizona.2012

… continue to impact health disparities among communities living along the U.S.-Mexico border. Because community health workers (CHWs) are recognized for promoting a variety of positive patient-centered health outcomes in their roles as educators and health system navigators, recent inquiry has …

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Solidarity, saviors, and the scales of authority : (social) media practices of the U.S.-Mexico border

Bordelon, Julia Jayne2021

… (social) media messaging about the U.S.-Mexico border. The deft use of media by the U.S. Border Patrol and immigrant advocacy and activist groups alike indicates evolving bordering practices. I bridge feminist geopolitical work on scale and geopolitical scholarship on media through a discursive …

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Materiality of migration: examining the impacts of Canada-US border policies in Plattsburgh, New York

Wilson, Hannah K., University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science2025

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