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Free trade? : informal economies at the U.S.-Mexico border
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- Creator
- Kathleen Staudt
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1998
- Physical Details
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- xii, 211 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 1566395682, 9780585365886, 1566395674, 9781566395670, 0585365881, 9781566395687
- OCLC
- ocm36648818, ocm47009128
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-205) and index.
- Introduction: culture, politics, and informal economies at the U.S.-Mexican border -- Gazing at space: borders, institutions, informality, and political community -- Contextualizing a border global city: Juárez-El Paso -- Finding and making work within and across borders: the informal underbelly at the border -- Moving within and across borders for land and shelter -- Getting public services: reflections on political community in the urban peripheries -- Engaging political community: surveillance, public accountability, and seeds across the border -- Moving from the border to the mainstream: conclusions and implications