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Author Werb, Dan, author.

Title City of omens : a search for the missing women of the borderlands / Dan Werb.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  614.4 WER    Check Shelf
Description 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Epidemiology -- Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California)
Women -- Mortality -- Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California)
Women -- Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California) -- Social conditions.
Women -- Crimes against -- Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California)
Violent crimes -- Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California)
Prostitution -- Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California)
Public health -- Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California)
Epidemiology. (OCoLC)fst00914091
Prostitution. (OCoLC)fst01079562
Public health. (OCoLC)fst01082238
Violent crimes. (OCoLC)fst01167321
Women -- Crimes against. (OCoLC)fst01176618
Women -- Mortality. (OCoLC)fst01176859
Women -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01176947
Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California) (OCoLC)fst01313482
ISBN 9781635572995 (hardcover)
1635572991 (hardcover)
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