Passing : Two Publics in a Mexican Border City / Rihan Yeh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yeh, Rihan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexico.

Tijuana.

US-Mexico border.

borders.

class.

collectivity.

middle class.

public sphere.

publics.

pueblo.

Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico)--Emigration and immigration.

Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico).

Mexican-American Border Region--Emigration and immigration.

Mexican-American Border Region.

Local Subjects:

Mexico.

Tijuana.

US-Mexico border.

borders.

class.

collectivity.

middle class.

public sphere.

publics.

pueblo.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Tijuana is the largest of Mexico's northern border cities, and although it has struggled during the United States' dramatic escalation of border enforcement, it nonetheless remains deeply connected with California by one of the largest, busiest international ports of entry in the world. In Passing, Rihan Yeh probes the border's role in shaping Mexican senses of self and collectivity. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, Yeh examines a range of ethnographic evidence: public demonstrations, internet forums, popular music, dinner table discussions, police encounters, workplace banter, intensely personal interviews, and more. Through these everyday exchanges, she shows how the promise of passage and the threat of prohibition shape Tijuana's communal sense of "we" and throw into relief long-standing divisions of class and citizenship in Mexico. Out of the nitty-gritty of "idian talk and interaction in Tijuana, Yeh captures the dynamics of desire and denial that permeate public spheres in our age of transnational crossings and fortified borders. Original and accessible, Passing is a timely work in light of current fierce debates over immigration, Latin American citizenship, and the US-Mexico border.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Note to the Reader

Methods/Debts

Introduction

I. Passage/Prohibition

II. Prohibition/Passage

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Appendix: Interview Excerpts from Chapter 2

References

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

9780226512075

022651207X

OCLC:

1017003784