Clandestine crossings : migrants and coyotes on the Texas-Mexico border /
Clandestine Crossings delivers an in-depth description and analysis of the experiences of working-class Mexican migrants at the beginning of the twenty-first century as they enter the United States surreptitiously with the help of paid guides known as coyotes. Drawing on ethnographic observations of...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2009.
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Table of 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.