El PasoA grounded and instructive analysis of the ways globalization affects a border city Every marker of social difference can be easily interpreted in the fashionable language of borderlandsand if so, as Victor M. Ortiz Gonzalez reveals, the practical reality of the border region is often grossly misrepresented and its people woefully served. He argues that amid the tantalizing abstractions generated by the sweeping reconfigurations of globalization,