Waubonsee Community College

Border lives, fronterizos, transnational migrants and commuters in Tijuana, Sergio Chávez

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Border lives

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Sergio Chávez

fronterizos, transnational migrants and commuters in Tijuana

"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."--Publisher information

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 -- Epilogue: Border lives a decade later