Publication

This CEJISS issue features ten articles on border-related topics in the Americas. The topics covered include 1) the meaning of borders in the late 20th and early 21st centuries in the Americas; 2) what Arizona’s Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act says about the non-territorial nature of the US-Mexico border; 3) the impact of designated intercultural universities on the autonomy of indigenous groups in Latin America; 4) interethnic power relations in the upper Madeira area of the Southwest Amazon region, specifically in the 19th century; 5) the cooperation between the Cuban and Czechoslovakian secret services in the 1960s; 6) the development of US immigration policy, particularly in relation to the US-Mexico border; 7) identity formation in a Western Apache reservation community; 8) emigration from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico between 2007 and 2012; 9) the violence perpetrated against women in the same city; and 10) the idea of separatism in the Americas.