Mexican voices of the border region /

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"Every day, 40,000 commuters cross the U.S. Mexico border at Tijuana San Diego to go to work. Untold numbers cross illegally. Since NAFTA was signed into law, the border has become a greater obstacle for people moving between countries. Transnational powers have exerted greater control over the...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Velasco Ortiz, M. Laura
Autres auteurs: Contreras Montellano, Oscar F.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©2011.
Collection:Voices of Latin American life.
Sujets:
Mexicans > Mexican-American Border Region > Social conditions.
Mexican Americans > Mexican-American Border Region > Social conditions.
Mexicans > Mexican-American Border Region > Ethnic identity.
Mexican Americans > Mexican-American Border Region > Ethnic identity.
Social ecology > Mexican-American Border Region.
Mexicains > Région frontalière mexicano-américaine > Conditions sociales.
Américains d'origine mexicaine > Région frontalière mexicano-américaine > Conditions sociales.
Mexicains > Identité ethnique > Région frontalière mexicano-américaine.
Américains d'origine mexicaine > Identité ethnique > Région frontalière mexicano-américaine.
Écologie sociale > Région frontalière mexicano-américaine.
HISTORY.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
Mexican Americans > Ethnic identity
Mexican Americans > Social conditions
Mexicans > Ethnic identity
Mexicans > Social conditions
Social ecology
Social conditions
Mexican-American Border Region > Social conditions.
Mexican-American Border Region > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Région frontalière mexicano-américaine > Conditions sociales.
Région frontalière mexicano-américaine > Émigration et immigration > Aspect social.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Living on the agricultural frontier : a farm worker in the San Quintin Valley
  • Home, sweet home : the life of an industrial homeworker
  • Sex without kisses, love with abuse : life as a sex worker
  • Juan unafraid : a straight-dealing drug trafficker
  • The life of an Indigenous woman street vendor in Tijuana
  • Taking care of the chameleon : a caregiver-commuter
  • A border acrobat : living without documents on both sides
  • The Mexicali panther : from people smuggler to drug trafficker
  • Identity in balance : a Mexican American youth in California
  • Guarding the American dream : the obligations of a border patrol official.

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