Michael J. Pisani

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Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados

Class and Culture on the South Texas Border

University of Texas Press

Now thoroughly revised and updated, this classic account of life on the Texas-Mexico border reveals how the borderlands have been transformed by NAFTA, population growth and immigration crises, and increased drug violence.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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The Informal and Underground Economy of the South Texas Border

University of Texas Press

This first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, longitudinal study of the “off-the-books” economic systems that fuel the Laredo-to-Brownsville corridor examines the complex repercussions of these legal and illegal forms of border commerce.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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