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undertaken every five years with the next comprehensive survey released by Fall of 2005. 349 Taking the First Step: A Collective Binational Call for Civic Action Blurred Borders is intended to highlight critical trans-border issues and solutions in an effort to increase the level of cross border civic participation in the San Diego-Tijuana border region during the coming decade. The report has also emphasized that the growing interdependencies between San Diego and Tijuana are blurring the lines of the border as we share the same air, water, children and a common destiny. As the report has highlighted, numerous collaborative cross-border efforts are now underway, and countless organizations in the private, public and non-governmental sector are actively engaged in strengthening the ties that bind San Diego and Tijuana. Still, more must be done to strengthen the social capital in our binational region. There are many ways that one can get involved: • Invest in bintional social change: Contribute to local non-profits and charitable causes in the San Diego-Tijuana region addressing migrant needs as well as greater cross-border collaboration in the areas of education, health, human services, urban planning, the environment and arts and culture. For donors wishing to support charitable causes in Tijuana and Baja California, the International Community Foundation is positioned to help. • Invest in future binational leaders and the region’s cross-cultural connectors: Support binational leadership programs aimed at shaping the region’s future leaders as well as making existing civic leaders more sensitive to the importance of the border and transboundary issues. • Learn about the border and migrant issues: Visit the border. Take a border tour and learn about the region’s emerging issues. Learn about the growing challenges of migrant workers and their families particularly in the areas of health and education. Support research that will contribute to expanded knowledge about the border region. Get involved with the San Diego-Tijuana Sister City Society. • Look beyond the immediate border: Assist migrant-sending regions with ties to San Diego as a way to mitigate education, health and community development impacts locally. • Help expand cross-border non-profit collaboration: Support conferences, dialogues and collaborative exchanges between non-profits in San Diego and Tijuana as well as charities in Mexico’s migrant-sending regions with the strongest ties to San Diego-Tijuana, such as Oaxaca and Jalisco. • Increase the level of attention of our elected officials on border-related issues: Write letters and visit with your elected officials on border-related issues, as well as the need to address urban and regional planning, education, health, human services and the environment on a binational basis. 349 San Diego State University’s IRSC has already started a study of quality of life in the San Diego-Tijuana Region. See http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~irsc/research.htm for more detail. 130
• Expand the level of elder and youth engagement in border-related issues. Our elders have collective wisdom and now are living longer. They have expertise to offer nonprofits on both sides of the border. Similarly, our youth are our future. More can be done to invest in youth opportunities that will promote greater cross-border learning and cultural exchange between students of the region. • Visit Tijuana: Tijuana and the surrounding communities of Baja California offers San Diego many strategic assets including a competitive workforce, world-class manufacturing, cultural and tourist attractions, rich biodiversity of binational importance, as well as affordable housing and health care options. 131
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Blurred Borders: Trans-Boundary Imp
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Tijuana-San Diego Non-Profit Organi
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Dedication Blurred Borders is dedic
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About the Editors Richard Kiy: Kiy
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Executive Summary Over the years, t
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prosperity and long-term competitiv
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CHAPTER I WHY THE BORDER MATTERS
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While Tijuana’s economic impact t
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Table 2: San Diego County’s Hispa
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Table 4: Impressions of Tijuana by
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immigration, including ineffectual
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in 2005; and 390,000 to 439,000 in
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implementing such a system at the b
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Among the principal aims of this re
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CHAPTER II DEFINING THE BORDER AND
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Jobs alone will not keep San Diego
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For those cross-border residents th
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Table 7: San Diego Matriculas (1995
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Table 9: Selected Demographic Chara
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CHAPTER III THE CASE FOR INCREASED
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few binational fiber optic networks
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Income disparity, both between and
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Thankfully, there is a growing cons
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Identifying San Diego-Tijuana's Sha
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CHAPTER IV PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE:
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(December 2003). 94 A used home’s
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However, for many, securing a place
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areas away from San Diego’s cente
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Securing Water Supply: An Imperativ
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esidents change their energy use pa
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Regional Workbench Consortium The R
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CHAPTER V EDUCATION - ISSUES AND OP
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Ysidro Elementary School District,
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Almost 95% of secondary schools in
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example is the Binational Migrant E
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and possess a strong commitment to
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Additionally, gaps between ethnic g
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in the business world on both sides
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CHAPTER VI ENVIRONMENT—BETTER COL
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Mexico and U.S. sources into a prot
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wildlife habitat. Furthermore, othe
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projects related to air quality and
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Fisheries management is a global ch
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The project’s potential environme
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Page 131 and 132: About the Mexico/United States Bord
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Page 139 and 140: Cross-Border Institutional Ties Nee
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HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (continue
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PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE: URBAN & RE
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B-29 border to enhance trade and co
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Appendix C: San Diego andTijuana At
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Definitions Canasta Basica: Defined
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