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UNINA9910777761803321 |
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Autore |
Richardson Chad <1943-> |
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On the edge of the law [[electronic resource] ] : culture, labor, and deviance on the south Texas border / / Chad Richardson & Rosalva Resendiz |
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Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2006 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (368 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Subculture - Texas |
Subculture - Mexican-American Border Region |
Mexicans - Texas - Social conditions |
Mexicans - Mexican-American Border Region - Social conditions |
Labor - Texas |
Labor - Mexican-American Border Region |
Crime - Texas |
Crime - Mexican-American Border Region |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [324]-342) and index. |
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Introduction: earthquakes and volcanoes along the south Texas border -- Traditional health care practices / with Cristina De Juana -- Other cultural beliefs and practices / with Ana Leos and María Isabel Ayala -- Displaced workers / with Priti Verma -- Undocumented workers / with Alberto Rodriguez -- Immigration enforcement issues / with Cristina De Juana -- Drug smuggling / with Lupe Treviño -- Property crime (shoplifting and auto theft) along the border / with Jesse Garcia and Hector Garcia -- American lives, Mexican justice / with Juan José Bustamante -- Dropping out / with John Cavazos -- Conclusion. |
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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 poorest residents |
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in the nation, but their rates of home ownership and intact two-parent families are among the highest in the country for low-income residential areas. What explains these apparently irreconcilable facts? Since 1982, faculty and students associated with the Borderlife Research Project at the University of Texas-Pan American have interviewed thousands of Valley residents to investigate and describe the cultural and social life along the South Texas-Northern Mexico border. In this book, Borderlife researchers clarify why Valley culture presents so many apparent contradictions as they delve into issues that are "on the edge of the law"—traditional health care and other cultural beliefs and practices, displaced and undocumented workers, immigration enforcement, drug smuggling, property crime, criminal justice, and school dropout rates. The researchers' findings make it plain that while these issues present major challenges for the governments of the United States and Mexico, their effects and contradictions are especially acute on the border, where residents must daily negotiate between two very different economies; health care, school, and criminal justice systems; and worldviews. |
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UNINA9910823913103321 |
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Burr Steven A. <1975-> |
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Finite transcendence : existential exile and the myth of home / / Steven A. Burr |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (212 p.) |
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Existentialism in literature |
Exiles in literature |
Home in literature |
Exile (Punishment) in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: The Ontological Situation; 1 Finitude; 2 Existential Exile; II: Betwixt and Between; 3 Absurdity and Exile; 4 Revolt and [Re-]Union; III: Home; 5 Finitude and Faith, Exile and [Re-]Union; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Finite Transcendence: Existential Exile and the Myth of Home introduces and situates "existential exile" as an experience of the fundamental finitude of human existence and demonstrates how a particular way of responding in faith may enable one to find home in exile. Using the literary and philosophical oeuvre of Albert Camus as a model, this book demonstrates the manner in which mythic literature can both present and engage the condition of exile toward its possible transcendence. |
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