Clandestine Crossings: Migrants and Coyotes on the Texas-Mexico Border

by David Spener

Book Overview

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 crossing conditions in the borderlands of South Texas, as well as interviews with migrants, coyotes, and border officials, Spener details how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801475899
• ISBN13: 9780801475894
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher