Crossing Borders, Reinforcing Borders Social Categories, Metaphors, and Narrative Identities on the U. S. -Mexico Frontier

Name: Crossing Borders, Reinforcing Borders Social Categories, Metaphors, and Narrative Identities on the U. S. -Mexico Frontier
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ISBN: 9780292787407

ISBN-10: 0292787405

ISBN-13: 9780292787407

Edition: 2000

Authors: Pablo Vila

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Along the U.S.-Mexico frontier, where border crossings are a daily occurrence for many people, reinforcing borders is also a common activity. Not only does the U.S. Border Patrol strive to "hold the line" against illegal immigrants, but many residents on both sides of the border seek to define and bound themselves apart from groups they perceive as "others." This pathfinding ethnography charts the social categories, metaphors, and narratives that inhabitants of El Paso and Ciudad Juaacute;rez use to define their group identity and distinguish themselves from "others." Pablo Vila draws on over 200 group interviews with more than 900 area residents to describe how Mexican nationals, Mexican…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 5/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Mexican Side: Discourses of Region



The Mexican Side: Discourses of Nation



The Emplotment of the Mexican on the U.S. Side of the Border



Mexican Immigrants and the "All Poverty Is Mexican" Narrative Plot



Operation Blockade, or When Private Narratives Went Public



Dialogical Social Science and the Possibility of Narrating Better Stories


Appendix


Categories, Interpellations, Metaphors, and Narratives: A Brief Theoretical Discussion


Notes


Bibliography


Index