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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820667803321

Autore

Velasco Ortiz M. Laura

Titolo

Mexican voices of the border region [[electronic resource] /] / Laura Velasco Ortiz and Oscar F. Contreras ; with translations by Sandra del Castillo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-13393-8

9786613133939

1-59213-910-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Collana

Voices of Latin American life

Altri autori (Persone)

Contreras MontellanoOscar F

Disciplina

972/.1

Soggetti

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

Mexican-American Border Region Social conditions

Mexican-American Border Region Emigration and immigration Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Living on the agricultural frontier -- Home, sweet industrial home -- Sex without kisses, love with abuse -- A straight-dealing drug trafficker -- An indigenous woman street vendor -- A caregiver commuter -- A border acrobat -- The Mexicali panther -- A young Mexican American -- Guarding the American dream.

Sommario/riassunto

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 flow of goods, services, information, and people.Mexican Voices of the Border Region examines the flow of



people, commercial traffic, and the development of relationships across this border. Through first-person narratives, Laura Velasco Ortiz and Oscar F. Contreras show that since