Revisiting the Topia Road
Walking in the Footsteps of West and Parsons
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4492083 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Johnathan Walker (University of New Hampshire), Jonathan Leib (Florida State University) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 555-581 |
| Publication date | 2010-04-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2002.tb00013.x |
| OpenAlex | W2140524850 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 18 |
In 1940, Berkeley graduate-student geographers Robert West and James Parsons traveled to Mexico's Sierra Madre Occidental to retrace the Topia Road, colonial Mexico's main trans-Sierran trail linking isolated mountain mining hamlets with the Pacific Coast and the world beyond, a journey chronicled in a 1941 Geographical Review article. Almost sixty years later, we document an attempt to retrace West and Parsons's route. Based on field observations, interviews with local informants, replication of Parsons's photographs, and his field notes, we evaluate landscape alteration in what West and Parsons referred to as some of the most isolated settlements in Mexico. We assess changes in the still-remote communities along the route in terms of three influences: mining, migration, and drug trafficking
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Puerto PEÑAsco
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History and Trends in U.S. Bound Migration from a Mexican Town
Dancing on a Volcano
U.s. 40
U. S. 40 Today
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Channelization of Undocumented Mexican Migrants to the U.S
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Consequences of Migration and Remittances for Mexican Transnational Communities
Transnational migrant communities and Mexican migration to the US
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,76 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2022 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |