Unequal Neighbors: Place Stigma and the Making of a Local Border

by Kristen Hill Maher and David Carruthers

San Diego and Tijuana are the site of a national border enforcement spectacle, but they are also neighboring cities with deeply intertwined histories, cultures, and economies. In Unequal Neighbors, Kristen Hill Maher and David Carruthers shift attention from the national border to a local one, examining the role of place stigma in reinforcing actual and imagined inequalities between these cities. Widespread bordered imaginaries in San Diego represent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197557198
• ISBN13: 9780197557198
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 364 Pages