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Barrio Libre : criminalizing states and delinquent refusals of the new frontier / Gilberto Rosas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosas, Gilberto, 1968-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crime--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Crime.
- Gangs--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Gangs.
- Youth--Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.
- Youth.
- Noncitizens--Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.
- Noncitizens.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (202 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this book, Gilberto Rosas draws on his in-depth ethnographic research among the members of Barrio Libre to understand why they have embraced criminality and how neoliberalism and security policies on both sides of the border have affected the youths' descent into Barrio Libre.
- Contents:
- Other nightmares and the rise of the new frontier
- Against Mexico : thickening delinquency of the new frontier
- Low-intensity reinforcements : cholos, chúntaros, and the "criminal" abandonments of the new frontier
- Against the United States : the violent inaugurations and delinquent exceptions of the new frontier
- Oozing Barrio Libre and the pathological ends of life
- Interlude. Nervous cocks at the new frontier.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613854469
- 9781283542012
- 1283542013
- 9780822391838
- 082239183X
- OCLC:
- 796796002
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