Clandestine crossings
Subtitle: migrants and coyotes on the Texas-Mexico border
By: David Spener.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780801447495; 9780801475894
Subjects: Human smuggling -- Mexican-American Border Region; Immigrants -- Mexican-American Border Region; Illegal aliens -- Mexican-American Border Region; Border crossing -- Mexican-American Border Region; Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects; Texas -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects; Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The unfolding of apartheid in South Texas : domination, resistance, and migration; title: Clandestine crossing at the beginning of the twenty-first century : the long march through South Texas; title: Coyotaje as a Mexican cultural practice applied to migration; title: Types of coyotaje practiced at the beginning of the twenty-first century on the South Texas-northeast Mexico border; title: Trust, distrust, and power : the social embeddedness of coyote-assisted border-crossings; title: Passing judgment : coyotes in the discourse of clandestine border-crossing.