Mexican voices of the border region /
"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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| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press
©2011.
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| Loạt: | Voices of Latin American life.
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt14btcvx |
Mục lục:
- 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.