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

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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 america surreptitiously with the assistance of paid guides referred to as coyotes. Drawing on ethnographic observations of crossing conditions in the borderlands of South Texas, in addition to interviews with migrants, coyotes, and border officials, Spener details how migrants and coyotes work together to evade apprehension by U.S. law enforcement authorities as they cross the border. In so doing, he seeks to dispel most of the myths that misinform public debate about undocumented immigration to america.

The hiring of a coyote, Spener argues, is without doubt one of the principal strategies that Mexican migrants have developed in response to intensified U.S. border enforcement. Even though this strategy is normally portrayed in the press as a sinister organized-crime phenomenon, Spener argues that it is better understood as the resistance of working-class Mexicans to an economic model and set of immigration policies in North The united states that an increasing number of resemble an apartheid system. In the absence of adequate employment opportunities in Mexico and legal mechanisms for them to work in america, migrants and coyotes draw on their social connections and cultural knowledge to stage successful border crossings in spite of the ever greater dangers placed in their path by government authorities.

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