The Dangerous Divide
Peril and Promise on the US-Mexico Border
by Peter Eichstaedt
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Pub Date May 01 2014 | Archive Date Apr 09 2014
Description
How do we balance border security and America’s need for a vital workforce while continuing to provide access to the American dream? Since the attacks of 9/11, the United States has steadily ramped up security along the U.S.-Mexico border, transforming America’s legendary Southwest into a frontier of fear. Veteran journalist Peter Eichstaedt roams this fabled region from Tucson, Arizona, to El Paso, Texas, meeting with migrants, border security advocates, and communities ravaged by cross-border crime. He rides with the border patrol and reveals the tragic situation that has evolved along the border. Eichstaedt finds that despite tens of thousands of border agents and the expenditure of billions of dollars, an estimated one million Mexicans and Central Americans continue to cross the border each year. These migrants fill jobs that have become the underpinnings of the U.S. economy. Rather than building more and better barricades, Eichstaedt argues that the United States must reform its immigration and drug laws and acknowledge that costly, counterproductive, and antiquated policies have created deadly circumstances on both sides of the border. Recognizing the truth of America’s long and tortured relations with Mexico must be followed by legitimizing the contributions made by migrants to the American way of life.
Advance Praise
“In this provocative and engaging book, Peter Eichstaedt has given us an insightful and fascinating on the ground account of how the US-Mexico divide has turned into an increasingly militarized frontier of fear.” —Peter Andreas, author of Smuggle Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America and Border Games: Policing the US-Mexico Divide
"Having narrated conflict from Afghanistan
to Somalia to the Congo, Peter
Eichstaedt brings a global perspective to the challenges and opportunities
along the US-Mexico border. A thoughtful and balanced read." - David J. Danelo, field research director,
Foreign Policy Research Institute, and author, The Border: Exploring the
US-Mexican Divide.
“Peter Eichstaedt brings the wise perspective of an experienced international journalist, long-time resident of the Southwest, and critical humanist to this fine account of the U.S.-Mexico border, a complex region much neglected or misunderstood by U.S. politicians and opinion-makers.” — Howard Campbell, Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas-El Paso
"In The Dangerous Divide, Peter Eichstaedt brilliantly illuminates the strange world of the U.S.-Mexican border, a world inhabited by ruthless drug traffickers and gun runners; desperate yet hopeful migrants; politicians of all stripes and views; multiple layers of law enforcement; bigots, paranoiacs and nativists; and, of course, lots of ordinary folks. By exploring these people’s realities, Eichstaedt demonstrates how a long legacy of often-willful misunderstanding has made two neighboring nations into perennial strangers, and rendered rational solutions elusive. A must-read for anyone hoping to understand the significance of our southern border." — Timothy J. Henderson, Professor of History/History Dept. Chair, Auburn University Montgomery
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781613748367 |
| PRICE | $26.95 (USD) |
