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Mexican voices of the border region / Laura Velasco Ortiz and Oscar F. Contreras ; with translations by Sandra del Castillo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Velasco Ortiz, M. Laura.
- Series:
- Voices of Latin American life.
- Voices of Latin American life
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mexicans--Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.
- Mexicans.
- Mexican Americans--Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.
- Mexican Americans.
- Mexicans--Mexican-American Border Region--Ethnic identity.
- Mexican Americans--Mexican-American Border Region--Ethnic identity.
- Social ecology--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Social ecology.
- Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.
- Mexican-American Border Region.
- Mexican-American Border Region--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (238 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613133939
- 9781283133937
- 1283133938
- 9781592139101
- 1592139108
- OCLC:
- 722853561
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