Paul Ganster - The U.S.-Mexican Border Today: Conflict and Cooperation in Historical Perspective

Paul Ganster is professor of history, director of the Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias, and director of the biological Field Stations Program at San Diego State University. He received his BA from Yale University and his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is author of more than sixty articles, book chapters, and edited works on policy questions of the U.S.-Mexican border region, border environmental issues, Latin American social history, and comparative border studies. Ganster has been a visiting professor at the School of Economics of the Universidad Autnoma de Baja California in Tijuana. He is chair of the Good Neighbor Environmental Board, a federal panel that advises the president and Congress on U.S.-Mexican border environmental issues.

David E. Lorey received his PhD in Latin American social and cultural history from UCLA in 1990. Between 1989 and 1997 he directed the Program on Mexico and was visiting professor of history at UCLA. From 1997 to 2003 he directed the Latin American program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Currently, he runs a private consulting practice, working on strategic planning, fund-raising, and marketing with nonprofit organizations in a range of fields. Loreys many publications include Global Environmental Challenges for the Twenty-First Century: Resources, Consumption, and Sustainable Solutions (2003).

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Ganster, Paul, author.

[U.S.-Mexican border into the twenty-first century]

The U.S.-Mexican border today : conflict and cooperation in historical perspective / Paul Ganster with David E. Lorey. Third edition.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4422-3110-8 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4422-3111-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4422-3112-2 (electronic) 1. Mexican-American Border RegionHistory21st century. 2. Mexican-American Border RegionHistory20th century. 3. United StatesRelationsMexico. 4. MexicoRelationsUnited States. I. Lorey, David E. II. Title.

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Remittances to Mexico, 19942014, in billions of U.S. dollars.

U.S. unauthorized immigrant population, in millions, 19902012.

U.S. trade with Mexico in goods, in millions of dollars, 19942014.