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One of the most salient issues in Caribbean studies is the region's linguistic and cultural fragmentation as a result of European colonization. More than five centuries later, the islands and American countries whose shores touch the Caribbean Sea still echo such maladies. The title of this book is a call towards unity, a unity that, in the words of Barbadian poet, historian and critic Kamau Brathwaite, "is submarine." In the past, nations' borders were established based on the distance a cannon ball was able to cover when fired from land out to sea. It is time to go beyond the cannon ball distances out into uncharted territories, beyond the canon, and, thus, beyond the cannon's range. This book features a selection of essays presented at the fifth annual Caribbean Without Borders conference at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. It critically delves into the fields of linguistics, history, literature, philosophy, politics, feminism, cultural studies, music, film, and art, among many others, as a means to re-visit, re-view, re-envision, re-read, re-interpret, and thus re-create a Caribbean aesthetics that looks to submarine unity, a unity that defies spatial, temporal, and social borders. The book conveys the limitless nature of the Caribbean and its rich culture, making it an appealing transdisciplinary source for a multidisciplinary academic audience

This book analyzes the reorientation of Chilean foreign policy between 1900-1930, a period in which Chile was able to consolidate its border situation with neighboring countries: with Argentina in 1902, with Bolivia in 1904 and with Peru in 1929. On the other hand, since an internal policy perspective, was the period that basically coincided with the development and crisis of the parliamentary republic

"Presents papers from 1991 international forum in Mexico City. Pt. 1 includes ten articles on border readjustments implemented by new international order, emphasizing NAFTA. Also examines recent border realignments in Europe and meaning of borders in Latin America. Pt. 2 concerns various aspects of Mexican migration (11 articles). Pt. 3 covers a variety of topics under the general title of migrants and refugee human rights in US and Mexico (22 articles). Last section includes studies of acculturation and transculturation along Mexico's northern and southern borders"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57

In the nineties of the twentieth century it seemed that national borders in Latin America were going to disappear, due to two interrelated phenomena: on the one hand, the reform of the State, embodied in the state deregulation (privatization), the opening of world markets ( free trade) and decentralization (location) and, on the other, planetary globalization based on interdependence, technology and communication. Twenty-five years later, the end of the borders is not observed, but their great structural transformation: they have changed and managed to acquire a strategic condition without equal within the new world model of capitalist accumulation, which shows that they are historically determined social constructions

Papers by academics from universities at both of Mexico's international borders El Colegio de la Frontera Norte and El Colegio de la Frontera Sur that analyze complex interrelationship of economic, social and environmental phenomena shared by these regions. Topics include victimization of Central American migrants in Mexico, sex workers in Ciudad Juarez, pulmonary tuberculosis among Mexican-US migrants, and others. Edition limited to 500 copies