Estudios Fronterizos ISSN: 0187-6961
[email protected] Universidad Autónoma de Baja California México Campos Delgado, Amalia E.; Odgers Ortiz, Olga Crossing the Border: Mobility as a Resource in the Tijuana/San Diego and Tecún Umán/Tapachula Regions Estudios Fronterizos, vol. 13, núm. 26, julio-diciembre, 2012, pp. 9-32 Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Mexicali, México Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=53025018001 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative Estudios Fronterizos, nueva época, vol. 13, núm. 26, julio-diciembre de 2012 Crossing the Border: Mobility as a Resource in the Tijuana/San Diego and Tecún Umán/Tapachula Regions* Amalia E. Campos Delgado**, Olga Odgers Ortiz*** Abstract Resumen This paper suggests that transborder mo En este artículo proponemos que la movili bility is crucial to the way individuals relate dad transfronteriza es un elemento funda to space and the meanings that they con mental en la manera en que los sujetos se struct about it. Based on ethnographic work relacionan con el espacio y construyen sus carried out in the Tijuana/San Diego and referentes a este respecto. A partir del traba Tecún Umán/Tapachula border regions, jo etnográfico realizado en las regiones fron an analysis is conducted of the relationship terizas Tijuana/San Diego y Tecún Umán/ between the border region and the spatial Tapachula, se analiza la relación entre el mobility of its inhabitants.