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Author Chávez, Sergio R., author.

Title Border lives : fronterizos, transnational migrants and commuters in Tijuana / Sergio Chavez
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Crafting border livelihoods -- The occupational careers of ex-braceros -- Becoming a border commuter -- Strategies for crossing the border through (non)inspection -- Border networks -- Conclusion: lessons from Tijuana
Summary 'Border Lives' tells the story of former, current, and future border crossers who live in Tijuana and use the border as a resource to construct their livelihoods. Drawing on almost a year and a half of ethnographic data, Sergio Chávez demonstrates the ways in which the border can be both a resource and a constraint on people's lives
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 5, 2016)
Subject Immigrants -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula) -- Social conditions
Transnationalism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Economic history
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Immigrants -- Social conditions
Social conditions
Transnationalism
SUBJECT Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
San Diego (Calif.) -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions
Mexican-American Border Region -- Economic conditions
Subject California -- San Diego
Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula)
Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California)
North America -- Mexican-American Border Region
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199380596
0199380597
9780199380619
0199380619