The violence behind the stigma: Lessons from a Mexican border city
Abstract: Ciudad Juarez, the birthplace of the maquiladora industry in the mid-1960s, won the international newspapers’ headlines since the 1990s as a spot of endemic violence in the northern Mexican border region. The territorial stigmatization of Juarez became even stronger after the unprecedented upsurge of criminality from 2008 to 2010, when it was considered twice the world’s most violent city. This violent context is often considered the result of cartels disputes and hence of the narcos (drug traffickers), responsible for degrading the city. The neoliberal politics of representation of the "undesirables", i.e. drug dealers, sex workers, and other vulnerable groups who could be easily identified as illegitimate dwellers of a "renewed" zone, is the symbolic mainstay both of the zero-tolerance policing (ZTP) and the attempts of gentrification that have taken place in Juarez since 2011. These two urban policies are claimed by the official discourse as the main reasons for the recovering f
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource, 13 S.
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Englisch
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NUPRI Working Paper ; Bd. 1
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Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste, Versicherungen
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Mannheim
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SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
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2019
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Silva Santos, Maria Larissa
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Núcleo de Pesquisa em Relações Internacionais da Universidade de São Paulo (NUPRI)
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-81657-7
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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14.08.2025, 10:45 MESZ
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Beteiligte
- Silva Santos, Maria Larissa
- Núcleo de Pesquisa em Relações Internacionais da Universidade de São Paulo (NUPRI)
- SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
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- 2019
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