{"title":"Economic Convergence in the Mexico-United States Cross-border Region: A Post-crisis Analysis 2010–2019","authors":"Brenda Mendez, Jorge Eduardo Mendoza","doi":"10.1080/08865655.2023.2261456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2023.2261456","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis research aims to estimate the σ and β convergence hypotheses for the period following the 2008 crisis (2010–2019) in the states of the Mexico-United States border region. The objective is to determine whether the disparities in per capita income have decreased during that period. Panel and spatial panel methodologies are employed to confirm the β-convergence hypotheses, taking into account heterogeneity, spatial dependence, and the endowment of human capital as conditioning factors. The σ-convergence is estimated using standard deviation. The results indicate the presence of σ-convergence and conditional β-convergence. However, a higher endowment of human capital does not necessarily lead to increased convergence rates due to existing differences between the two economies. In conclusion, there is a need to formulate public policies in Mexico that promote educational attainment among the population residing in the northern border region.KEYWORDS: Human capitalconvergenceregional economic growthpanel dataspatial econometrics Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":45999,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Borderlands Studies","volume":"2011 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134975543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anissa Maâ, Julia Van Dessel, Amandine Van Neste-Gottignies
{"title":"Information Directed Towards Migrants and the (Un)Making of Borders: An Interdisciplinary Perspective Between Countries of Origin, Transit, and Destination","authors":"Anissa Maâ, Julia Van Dessel, Amandine Van Neste-Gottignies","doi":"10.1080/08865655.2023.2261455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2023.2261455","url":null,"abstract":"Migration information campaigns and awareness-raising activities are increasingly used by Western governments as a “soft” tool of border enforcement in countries of origin, transit, and destination. Acting upon perceptions and aspirations, these information provision initiatives aim at convincing (potential) migrants to remain in or “voluntarily” return to their country of origin. As they rely on security and humanitarian rationales, they gather heterogenous actors whose practices oscillate between migration control and assistance. Yet, despite their apparently consensual nature, these initiatives bring out conflicting interests and generate contestations on the ground. In this perspective, this SI approaches information as a highly crowded and disputed field to grasp the complexity of power relationships in a restrictive migration context. Drawing on an interdisciplinary perspective, it investigates the discourses and norms conveyed by governmental initiatives that use information as a tool to control mobilities; the communication strategies defined by state and non-state actors to reach (potential) migrants; and the everyday practices deployed by migrants themselves to navigate this disputed information landscape.","PeriodicalId":45999,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Borderlands Studies","volume":"50 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134960831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border <b>On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border</b> , by Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2021","authors":"Liao Zhang","doi":"10.1080/08865655.2023.2249910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2023.2249910","url":null,"abstract":"\"On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border.\" Journal of Borderlands Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":45999,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Borderlands Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134957816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discourses of Borders and the Nation in the USA: A Discourse-Historical Analysis <b>Discourses of Borders and the Nation in the USA: A Discourse-Historical Analysis</b> , by Massimiliano Demata, New York, Routledge, 2023, $51.96 (hardback)","authors":"Claudia Veronica Donoso","doi":"10.1080/08865655.2023.2261452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2023.2261452","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45999,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Borderlands Studies","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135815816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Children Crossing Borders: Latin American Migrant Childhoods <b>Book review: Children Crossing Borders: Latin American Migrant Childhoods</b> , edited by Alejandra J. Josiowicz and Irasema Coronado, The University of Arizona Press, 2022, 256 pp., $35.00 (Paperback), ISBN: 9780816546190","authors":"Andrea Cortés Saavedra","doi":"10.1080/08865655.2023.2261487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2023.2261487","url":null,"abstract":"\"Book review: Children Crossing Borders: Latin American Migrant Childhoods.\" Journal of Borderlands Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":45999,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Borderlands Studies","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136060624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mapping the Middle East: Israeli Student’s Geographical Knowledge and Perceptions","authors":"Moran Zaga, Tal Yaar Waisel","doi":"10.1080/08865655.2023.2255191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2023.2255191","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45999,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Borderlands Studies","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136024664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Border Witness: Re-imagining the US-Mexico Borderlands through Film","authors":"Kathleen Staudt","doi":"10.1080/08865655.2023.2255195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2023.2255195","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45999,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Borderlands Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42197287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nicolás Pineda-Pablos, Antonio Cáñez-Cota, P. Ganster
{"title":"A General Perspective on the Book Border Water by Steve Mumme","authors":"Nicolás Pineda-Pablos, Antonio Cáñez-Cota, P. Ganster","doi":"10.1080/08865655.2023.2255194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2023.2255194","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45999,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Borderlands Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47258471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cross-border mobility: Rail or road? Space-time-lines as an evidence base for policy debates","authors":"Dominik Bertram, T. Chilla, Stefan Hippe","doi":"10.1080/08865655.2023.2249917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2023.2249917","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45999,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Borderlands Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46927859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are Borderlands More Violent? A Spatial Analysis of Border Dis (Orders) in North and West Africa","authors":"A. C. Franco","doi":"10.1080/08865655.2023.2249929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2023.2249929","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45999,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Borderlands Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49658443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}