Loustaunau and Sanchez-Bane combine their many years of
association and collaboration dealing with health issues in the
U.S.-Mexico border area, to bring together a series of chapters
illustrating that "asi es la vida," that's life, need not indicate
a fatalistic acceptance that poverty, sickness, misery, and
misfortune must be taken in stride. The authors of the chapters
have researched, studied, worked with, or have been borderlanders
themselves.
The chapters focus on the impact of the social structure, and on
the power and determination of people to change their conditions
for the better, increasing their choices and enlarging their
worlds. They look beyond political and economic barriers to find
the spark in the human spirit that must be identified and nurtured
to produce a better life for the benefit of peoples and nations on
both sides of the border, and to nourish the third culture as a
bridge between nations. The authors note the dangers and pitfalls
along the way, and the need for more realistic policies and
programs to empower people to define their own problems, and to
participate in fashioning the solutions.
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