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\"At the center of the 2,000 mile U.S.-Mexico border, a sprawling transnational urban space has mushroomed into a metropolitan region with over two million people whose livelihoods depend on global manufacturing, cross-border trade, and border control jobs. Our volume advances knowledge on urban space, gender, education, security, and work, focusing on Ciudad Jur̀ez, the export-processing (maquiladora) manufacturing capital of the Americas and the infamous site of femicide and outlier murder rates connected with arms and drug trafficking. Given global economic trends, this transnational urban region is a likely paradigmatic future for other world regions\"--Provided by publisher.

The volume is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing an enormously significant region in ways that clarify the kind of everyday life and work that is generated in a major urban global manufacturing site amid insecurity, inequality, and a virtually absent state.

The volume is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing an enormously significant region in ways that clarify the kind of everyday life and work that is generated in a major urban global manufacturing site amid insecurity, inequality, and a virtually absent state.

As Popitz (2017) argues, violence is one component of the great economy of world history, an option permanently open to human activity. In Ciudad Juárez, right at the border between the United States and Mexico, this notion explains the fundamental incongruity that characterises the region: a booming industrial productive model operating in parallel with an international crime and violence hotspot that is also a coveted criminal passageway. This paper will argue that official and criminal checkpoints designed for border-crossing, have had a transformative spatial role when considered across the dimensions of infrastructure and stigma, triggering a material/symbolic tension. We argue that their location and accessibility determine the exposure of nearby communities to economic growth but also violent entrepreneurship – the illegal crossing of goods and people still remains a constant characteristic of the region, not only as part of a criminal enterprise but as a viable livelihood. The ways in which the region of Juárez develops and grows also determines how trafficking and illegal practices are established; rules and regulations that provide territorial parameters for what is open and transparent are equally referential to what is clandestine and devious. The tensions brought by the border’s geopolitical value have amplified the value of infrastructure and its practical ownership. The international border operates as a line that is barrier, social divider, landmark, policy-bridge, filtering mechanism and trafficking obstacle. Under this permanent state of tension, the checkpoints provide a physical structure to the transit flows and a sovereign interruption. Across this urbanism, the checkpoint surroundings acquire a magnetic significance, due to the resulting transit dynamics and the surveillance deterrents at the core of their function. Furthermore, their dual nature – official and criminal – has branded the region as a criminal outpost, stigmatising the people inhabiting it, and perpetuating the idea that Juárez is defined by its violent infrastructures. 波皮茨 (Popitz, 2017) 认为，暴力是世界历史上伟大经济的一个组成部分，是向人类活动永久开放的选择。在位于美墨边境的华雷斯城 (Ciudad Juárez)，这个概念可以解释作为该区域典型特征的根本不协调性：这里既有欣欣向荣的工业生产模式，又是国际犯罪与暴力的热点地区，还是令人垂涎的犯罪通道。本文认为，如果从跨基础设施和污名的维度考量，为过境而设计的官方和刑事检查站具有变革性的空间作用，引发了物质/象征张力。我们认为，临近社区的位置和可达性决定了其受益于经济增长，同时也遭受了暴力冒险的影响—货物和人员的非法过境仍然是该地区的一个持续特征，不仅是犯罪团伙的活动，还是普通人的一种生计。华雷斯城的区域发展和成长方式也决定了非法贩运和非法行为的泛滥；为公开透明提供区域参数的规则和条例，同样为秘密的勾当提供了参考。边界地缘政治价值带来的紧张局势放大了基础设施及其实际所有权的价值。国际边境线是屏障、社会分隔线、地标、政策桥梁、过滤机制和非法贩运的障碍。在这种永久的紧张状态下，检查站为过境流提供了物理结构和主权中断。在这种城市背景下，检查站周围环境具有磁性意义，而这又是因为由此产生的交通动态和作为其功能核心的监视威慑力。此外，该地区的双重性质（官方的和犯罪的）使其成为了犯罪前哨，使当地居民承受了污名，并使华雷斯城被其暴力基础设施所定义的观念永久化。

This article examines the two drug gangs in Ciudad Juárez that were significantly connected to local and state politics between 1928 and 1936. It sheds light on the border drug trade and the gangs themselves, shows how the gangs influenced local and state politics, and it illustrates how politics played an important role in shaping the gangs. In doing so, it clarifies the drug and political histories of Ciudad Juárez and the state of Chihuahua during the 1920s and 1930s. Este artículo examina las dos bandas de narcotráfico en Ciudad Juárez que estuvieron significativamente relacionadas con la política local y estatal entre 1928 y 1936. Da luz acerca del narcotráfico fronterizo y las bandas mismas, muestra cómo esas bandas influyeron en la política local y estatal, y señala que la política desempeñó un papel importante en la formación de las mismas. Al hacer esto, clarifica la historia de la política y del narcotráfico de Ciudad Juárez y del estado de Chihuahua durante las décadas de 1920 y 1930.