Clandestine Crossings : Migrants and Coyotes on the Texas-Mexico Border /

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Clandestine Crossings delivers an in-depth description and analysis of the experiences of working-class Mexican migrants at the beginning of the twenty-first century as they enter the United States surreptitiously with the help of paid guides known as coyotes. Drawing on ethnographic observations of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Spener, David, 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Noncitizens.
Social conditions.
Immigrants.
Human smuggling.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Border crossing.
Illegal immigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Immigrants clandestins.
Immigration clandestine > Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine.
Trafic de migrants > Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine.
Passage de frontiere > Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine.
Undocumented Immigrants
Illegal immigration > Mexican-American Border Region.
Immigrants > Mexican-American Border Region.
Noncitizens > Mexican-American Border Region.
Human smuggling > Mexican-American Border Region.
Border crossing > Mexican-American Border Region.
United States.
Texas.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region.
Mexico.
Texas > Émigration et immigration > Aspect social.
Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine > Conditions sociales.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Texas > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Mexico > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Mexican-American Border Region > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The unfolding of apartheid in South Texas : domination, resistance, and migration
  • Clandestine crossing at the beginning of the twenty-first century : the long march through the brush country
  • Coyotaje as a cultural practice applied to migration
  • Coyotaje and migration in the contemporary period
  • Trust, distrust, and power : the social embeddedness of coyote-assisted border-crossings
  • Passing judgment : coyotes in the discourse of clandestine border-crossing.

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