Border Lives: Fronterizos, Transnational Migrants, and Commuters in Tijuana
- ISBN-10
- 0199380600
- ISBN-13
- 9780199380602
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 248
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-02-03
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Sergio Ch?vez
Description
In Border Lives, Sergio Ch?vez moves past Tijuana's notorious image as a hub of sex, drugs, and crime to tell the story of the diverse group of individuals who use both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border as a resource to construct their livelihoods. Based on ethnographic observation and in-depth interviews, Ch?vez explores the complex and often contradictory ways in which the border influences the livelihood strategies and lifestyles of border crossers. The border shapes respondents' knowledge and relationships, controls their time, and allows them to convert U.S. wages into a Mexican standard of living without losing the social and cultural comforts of Tijuana-as-home. A substantial contribution to migration and labor studies, Border Lives provides empirical grounding to theories of how geographical borders shape human action.
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