Border Emergencies
Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border, by Ieva Jusionyte (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018). Reviewed by Rafael Wainer,…
Posts Tagged 'US-Mexican relations'
On Mexican Transnational Families
by Gail Mummert, El Colegio de Michoacán Reviewed in this essay: Mexicans in Alaska: An Ethnography of Mobility, Place, and…
Migrant Youth as Border Brokers
Border Brokers: Children of Mexican Immigrants Navigating U.S. Society, Laws, and Politics, by Christina M. Getrich (Tucson: University of Arizona…
Americans, Deported
Deported Americans: Life After Deportation to Mexico, by Beth C. Caldwell (Durham: Duke University Press, 2019) Reviewed by Laura Cleton,…
When I Wear My Alligator Boots: Narco-Culture in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
When I Wear My Alligator Boots: Narco-Culture in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands is an ethnography of the drug industry’s asymmetrical distribution…
Sustaining the Borderlands in the Age of NAFTA: Development, Politics and Participation on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Suzanne Simon has written a valuable and engaging study of the North America Free Trade Agreement and the efficacy of…
Living with Oil: Promises, Peaks, and Declines on Mexico’s Gulf Coast
A growing number of international relations scholars recognise the shortcomings in the traditional assumptions about the Westphalian political system; assumptions…
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 