Threshold : emergency responders on the US-Mexico border /

"Emergency responders on the US-Mexico border operate at the edges of two states. They rush patients to trauma centers across state lines, tend to the broken bones of migrants who jump over the fence, and put out fires that know no national boundaries. Paramedics and firemen on both sides of th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jusionyte, Ieva, 1983- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Colección:California series in public anthropology ; 41.
Temas:
Emergency medical services > Mexican-American Border Region.
Rescue work > Mexican-American Border Region.
Emergency medical services.
Emergency Responders
Emergency Medical Services
Rescue Work
Emigration and Immigration
Services des urgences médicales > Région frontalière mexicano-américaine.
Sauvetage > Région frontalière mexicano-américaine.
Services des urgences médicales.
emergency medical centers.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Rescue work.
Mexican-American Border Region > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Mexico
United States
Région frontalière mexicano-américaine > Émigration et immigration > Aspect social.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Dead end
  • Treacherous Terrain
  • First due to the border
  • Binational security
  • Toxic statecraft
  • Politics of wounding and of rescue
  • Nogales, Arizona, Mexico
  • Fence jumpers
  • Tactical infrastructure
  • Por otro lado (to the other side)
  • Overpaid tomato pickers
  • Accidental violence
  • Brotherhood
  • Red tape
  • Maquiladora
  • Acid rain
  • Road to rocky point
  • Staging
  • Security of the future
  • Load vehicles
  • The man in black dress pants
  • Bound by law
  • Watchouts
  • Aid is not a crime
  • Land of many uses
  • Some pill to help us walk
  • Epilogue: the great new wall.

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