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  • Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados

    Class and Culture on the South Texas Border

    de Chad Richardson, Michael J. Pisani ...
    This updated edition of the classic study examines life on the Texas-Mexico border, including the effects of NAFTA, drug violence, and immigration crises.Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados offers an authoritative portrait of the people of the South Texas/Northern Mexico borderlands. First published in 1999, the book is now extensively revised and updated to cover developments since 2000, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Informal and Underground Economy of the South Texas Border

    de Chad Richardson, Michael J. Pisani ...
    Series series Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
    Much has been debated about the presence of undocumented workers along the South Texas border, but these debates often overlook the more complete dimension: the region’s longstanding, undocumented economies as a whole. Borderlands commerce that evades government scrutiny can be categorized into informal economies (the unreported exchange of legal goods and services) or underground economies ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • On the Edge of the Law

    Culture, Labor, and Deviance on the South Texas Border

    de Chad Richardson, Rosalva Resendiz ...
    The Valley of South Texas is a region of puzzling contradictions. Despite a booming economy fueled by free trade and rapid population growth, the Valley typically experiences high unemployment and low per capita income. The region has the highest rate of drug seizures in the United States, yet its violent crime rate is well below national and state averages. The Valley's colonias are home to the ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Imagined Borders/Lived Ambiguity

    Intersections of Repression and Resistance

    de B. Garrick Harden, Robert F. Carley, G. Dillon Nicholson, Ryan Ashley Caldwell, Eric Gamino, Juan José Bustamante, Jesús A. Garcia, Chad Richardson, Rogelio Saenz, Dejun Su0, Hilario Molina II1, Ian Barnard2 ...
    Imagined Borders/Lived Ambiguity: Intersections of Repression and Resistance examines the theoretical versatility of the concept of “borders.” The impulse to categorize, while present from antiquity in Western culture, has increased in intensity since the advent of the modern age with its corresponding political rise in the ideology of the sovereign nation-state. While immigration is the common ... Leer más

    $97.99 USD

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  • Favela

    Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro

    de Janice Perlman ...
    Janice Perlman wrote the first in-depth account of life in the favelas, a book hailed as one of the most important works in global urban studies in the last 30 years. Now, in Favela, Perlman carries that story forward to the present. Re-interviewing many longtime favela residents whom she had first met in 1969--as well as their children and grandchildren--Perlman offers the only long-term ... Leer más

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  • Sacrificing Families

    Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders

    de Leisy J. Abrego ...
    Widening global inequalities make it difficult for parents in developing nations to provide for their children, and both mothers and fathers often find that migration in search of higher wages is their only hope. Their dreams are straightforward: with more money, they can improve their children's lives. But the reality of their experiences is often harsh, and structural barriers—particularly those ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Economies of Desire

    Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic

    de Amalia L. Cabezas ...
    Is a native-born tour guide who has sex with tourists—in exchange for dinner or gifts or cash—merely a prostitute or gigolo? What if the tourist continues to send gifts or money to the tour guide after returning home? As this original and provocative book demonstrates, when it comes to sex—and the effects of capitalism and globalization—nothing is as simple as it might seem.Based on ten years of ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Challenging Fronteras

    Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S.

    Edición de Mary Romero, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Vilma Ortiz ...
    Challenging Fronteras reflects an important new wave of research that moves beyond sweeping generalizations that treat Latinos as a monolithic cultural group. This anthology focuses on the diversity of Latino experiences by providing historical specificity and cutting-edge research that employs the conceptual and analytical tools of social science. Contributors, selected from leading researchers ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Contraband Corridor

    Making a Living at the Mexico--Guatemala Border

    de Rebecca Berke Galemba ...
    The Mexico–Guatemala border has emerged as a geopolitical hotspot of illicit flows of both goods and people. Contraband Corridor seeks to understand the border from the perspective of its long-term inhabitants, including petty smugglers of corn, clothing, and coffee. Challenging assumptions regarding security, trade, and illegality, Rebecca Berke Galemba details how these residents engage in and ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Care Work and Class

    Domestic Workers’ Struggle for Equal Rights in Latin America

    de Merike Blofield ...
    Despite constitutions that enshrine equality, until recently every state in Latin America permitted longer working hours (in some cases more than double the hours) and lower benefits for domestic workers than other workers. This has, in effect, subsidized a cheap labor force for middle- and upper-class families and enabled well-to-do women to enter professional labor markets without having to ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Two Nations Indivisible

    Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead

    de Shannon K. O'Neil ...
    Five freshly decapitated human heads are thrown onto a crowded dance floor in western Mexico. A Mexican drug cartel dismembers the body of a rival and then stitches his face onto a soccer ball. These are the sorts of grisly tales that dominate the media, infiltrate movies and TV shows, and ultimately shape Americans' perception of Mexico as a dangerous and scary place, overrun by brutal drug lords ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • I'm Neither Here nor There

    Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty

    de Patricia Zavella ...
    I’m Neither Here nor There explores how immigration influences the construction of family, identity, and community among Mexican Americans and migrants from Mexico. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Patricia Zavella describes how poor and working-class Mexican Americans and migrants to California’s central coast struggle for agency amid the region’s deteriorating economic conditions and ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD