1 Culture, Structure, and the South Texas– Northern Mexico Border Economy

2012 ◽  
pp. 18-47
Keyword(s):  
South Texas ◽  
The South ◽  
Northern Mexico ◽  
Mexico Border

Landscape Ecology of Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus (Ixodida: Ixodidae) Outbreaks in the South Texas Coastal Plain Wildlife Corridor Including Man-Made Barriers

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 546-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan T Showler ◽  
Adalberto Pérez de León
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Storm Surges ◽  
Boophilus Microplus ◽  
South Texas ◽  
The South ◽  
Wildlife Corridor ◽  
Mud Flat ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Saline Habitats ◽  
Cattle Fever Tick

Abstract Landscape features and the ecology of suitable hosts influence the phenology of invasive tick species. The southern cattle fever tick, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus (Canestrini) (Ixodida: Ixodidae), vectors causal agents of babesiosis in cattle and it infests exotic, feral nilgai, Bosephalus tragocamelus Pallas, and indigenous white-tailed deer, Odocoilus virginianus (Zimmerman), on the South Texas coastal plain wildlife corridor. The corridor extends from the Mexico border to cattle ranches extending north from inside Willacy Co. Outbreaks of R. microplus infesting cattle and nondomesticated ungulate hosts since 2014 in the wildlife corridor have focused attention on host infestation management and, by extension, dispersal. However, there is a knowledge gap on the ecology of R. microplus outbreaks in the South Texas coastal plain wildlife corridor. Ixodid distribution on the wildlife corridor is strongly influenced by habitat salinity. Saline habitats, which constitute ≈25% of the wildlife corridor, harbor few ixodids because of occasional salt toxicity from hypersaline wind tides and infrequent storm surges, and from efficient egg predation by mud flat fiddler crabs, Uca rapax (Smith). Rhipicephalus microplus infestations on nilgai were more prevalent in part of the corridor with mixed low salinity and saline areas than in an area that is more extensively saline. The different levels of R. microplus infestation suggest that man-made barriers have created isolated areas where the ecology of R. microplus outbreaks involve infested nilgai. The possible utility of man-made barriers for R. microplus eradication in the lower part of the South Texas coastal plain wildlife corridor is discussed.

Improved Selection of Candidates for Stimulation Treatment in the Wilcox Play in the South Texas/Mexico Border Area

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Boonen ◽  
A.C. Byrd ◽  
G. Frisch ◽  
C. Kessler ◽  
G. Kubelka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Texas ◽  
The South ◽  
Border Area ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Selection Of

Dissolving “Wicked” Problems: Beyond Institutionalist and Participatory Approaches to Land Title Regularization

2019 ◽  
pp. 0739456X1985606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth Pipkin
Keyword(s):  
Case Analysis ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
South Texas ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
The South ◽  
Participatory Approaches ◽  
Means And Ends ◽  
Land Title ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Planning Intervention

A central contribution of institutionalist approaches to planning has been to illustrate how planners’ constraints can also present opportunities for creative action. Through an ethnographic case analysis of a successful land title regularization project on the South Texas-Mexico border, this paper identifies two critical factors not reducible to institutional features: groups’ perceptions of shared needs (vulnerabilities) and the range of actions that groups recognize as legible and valid for addressing these needs (repertoires). These additional factors reveal how planners can dissolve apparent “wicked” problems by allowing disparate group perspectives to transform the means and ends of planning intervention.

Border Splurge to Deter Border Surge: An Auto-ethnographic Examination of Border Security Operations on the South Texas–Mexico Border

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-272
Author(s):  
Eric Gamino
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Police Department ◽  
South Texas ◽  
Border Security ◽  
The South ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
Humanitarian Crisis ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Security Operations ◽  
Ethnographic Examination

In the summer of 2014, the South Texas–Mexico border became the epicenter of a humanitarian crisis as thousands of unaccompanied minors and mothers from Central America seeking asylum traveled to the Rio Grande Valley. The institutional response from the state of Texas was to militarize the border with a multi-agency initiative dubbed Operation Strong Safety, at a cost of $1.3 million a week for the remainder of the year. I collected data for this study while I worked as a police officer in a police department located on the South Texas–Mexico border that participated in the operation. Importantly, from an institutional perspective, this study illustrates what police officers do while working on this operation. Findings reveal that officers spent their time performing non-enforcement functions. I argue that state governmental officials should divest from ineffective border security operations and should instead allocate funds to local communities and local organizations who are assisting with the humanitarian crisis.

scholarly journals The Pursuit of Equal Educational Opportunity: A Historical Analysis of the South Texas/Border Initiative

2020 ◽  
pp. 089590482095112
Author(s):  
Vincent D. Carales ◽  
Erin E. Doran
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Educational Opportunity ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
South Texas ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
The South ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Texas Border ◽  
South Texas Border Initiative

The purpose of this historical study was to investigate how individuals articulated the call for the South Texas/Border Initiative, a legislative mandate that funneled unprecedented amounts of funding to underserved universities along the Texas-Mexico border region between 1987 and 2003. Utilizing archival sources, we conducted an analysis of the intentional shifts in funding critical to equity and access in higher education. The events surrounding the South Texas/Border Initiative are unique in that they represent purposeful Latina/o community and state-wide activism that challenged higher education funding inequities.

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