Sergio Chávez

Border Lives (eBook, ePUB)

Fronterizos, Transnational Migrants, and Commuters in Tijuana

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Border Lives, Sergio Chávez 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, Chávez 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199380602
• Artikelnr.: 45109484

Autorenporträt

Sergio Chávez is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rice University. He was born and raised in California's Salinas Valley.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Crafting Border Livelihoods
Chapter 2: The Occupational Careers of Ex-Braceros
Chapter 3: Becoming a Border Commuter
Chapter 4: Strategies for Crossing the Border through (Non)Inspection
Chapter 5: Border Networks
Chapter 6: Conclusion: Lessons from Tijuana
Epilogue: Border Lives One Decade Later
Appendix A: Methodological Reflection
Index