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Clandestine crossings : migrants and coyotes on the Texas-Mexico border / David Spener.
LIBRA JV6475 .S64 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spener, David, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human smuggling--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Human smuggling.
- Immigrants--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Immigrants.
- Noncitizens--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Noncitizens.
- Illegal immigration--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Illegal immigration.
- Border crossing--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Border crossing.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Social aspects.
- Mexico--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Mexico.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Texas--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Texas.
- Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.
- Mexican-American Border Region.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 298 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- The unfolding of apartheid in South Texas : domination, resistance, and migration
- Clandestine crossing at the beginning of the twenty-first century : the long march through the brush country
- Coyotaje as a cultural practice applied to migration
- Coyotaje and migration in the contemporary period
- Trust, distrust, and power : the social embeddedness of coyote-assisted border-crossings
- Passing judgment : coyotes in the discourse of clandestine border-crossing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801447495
- 0801447496
- 9780801475894
- 0801475899
- OCLC:
- 320798680
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