City of omens : a search for the missing women of the borderlands
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Published
New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
Format
Book
ISBN
9781635572995, 1635572991
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Status
Montgomery Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
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Published
New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
Language
English
ISBN
9781635572995, 1635572991
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-279) and index.
Description
For decades, American hungers sustained Tijuana. In this scientific detective story, a public health expert reveals what happens when a border city's lifeline is brutally severed. Despite its reputation as a carnival of vice, Tijuana was, until recently, no more or less violent than neighboring San Diego, its sister city across the border wall. But then something changed. Over the past ten years, Mexico's third-largest city became one of the world's most dangerous. Tijuana's murder rate skyrocketed and produced a staggering number of female victims. Hundreds of women are now found dead in the city each year, or bound and mutilated along the highway that lines the Baja coast. When Dan Werb began to study these murders in 2013, rather than viewing them in isolation, he discovered that they could only be understood as one symptom among many. Environmental toxins, drug overdoses, HIV transmission: all were killing women at overwhelming rates. As an epidemiologist, trained to track epidemics by mining data, Werb sensed the presence of a deeper contagion targeting Tijuana's women. Not a virus, but some awful wrong buried in the city's social order, cutting down its most vulnerable inhabitants from multiple directions. Werb's search for the ultimate causes of Tijuana's femicide casts new light on immigration, human trafficking, addiction, and the true cost of American empire-building. It leads Werb all the way from factory slums to drug dens to the corridors of police corruption, as he follows a thread that ultimately leads to a surprising turn back over the border, looking northward.
Subjects
LC Subjects
Epidemiology -- Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California)
Prostitution -- Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California)
Public health -- Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California)
Violent crimes -- Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California)
Women -- Crimes against -- Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California)
Women -- Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California) -- Social conditions.
Women -- Mortality -- Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California)
Prostitution -- Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California)
Public health -- Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California)
Violent crimes -- Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California)
Women -- Crimes against -- Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California)
Women -- Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California) -- Social conditions.
Women -- Mortality -- Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California)
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Werb, D. (2019). City of omens: a search for the missing women of the borderlands . Bloomsbury Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Werb, Dan. 2019. City of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the Borderlands. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Werb, Dan. City of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the Borderlands New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Werb, Dan. City of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the Borderlands Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
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