ABSTRACT
In this chapter, Juan Carlos Arriaga analyzes social dynamics in the Mexico–Belize border region in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and makes note of their geographic and social specificities. He examines the historical configuration and geographic-social features of the border region, identifying crossings that take place for the purpose of consuming medical and educational services, tourism, temporary work, and human trafficking. He also refers to legal and illegal cross-border trade (in contraband, drugs, and protected fauna) as the most important cross-border dynamics of the Mexico–Belize border region in the twenty-first century.
