Passing : Two Publics in a Mexican Border City /

Passing : Two Publics in a Mexican Border City /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Yeh, Rihan, author.
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2018. ©2017
Description:	1 online resource (304 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Emigration and immigration Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) -- Emigration and immigration. Mexican-American Border Region -- Emigration and immigration. Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California) North America -- Mexican-American Border Region
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11399362

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ISBN:	9780226512075 022651207X 9780226511887 9780226511917
Notes:	Methods/Debts Note on Translations, Transcriptions, and Pseudonyms Introduction I: Passage/Prohibition Overview 1: The Line 2: Inés's 'I' The Assembly Plant 3: The Place Where Anything Can Happen 4: 'They Say' in the Country Club II: Prohibition/Passage Overview 5: Clase Media and Pueblo before the Law The Visa Interview 6: Passes 7: The Street Is a River 8: The Stone Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix: Interview Excerpts from Chapter 2 References Index. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Tijuana is the largest of Mexico's northern border cities, and although it has struggled during the United States' dramatic escalation of border enforcement, it nonetheless remains deeply connected with California by one of the largest, busiest international ports of entry in the world. In 'Passing', Rihan Yeh probes the border's role in shaping Mexican senses of self and collectivity. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, Yeh examines a range of ethnographic evidence: public demonstrations, internet forums, popular music, dinner table discussions, police encounters, workplace banter, intensely personal interviews, and more. Through these everyday exchanges, she shows how the promise of passage and the threat of prohibition shape Tijuana's communal sense of 'we' and throw into relief long-standing divisions of class and citizenship in Mexico.
Other form:	Print version: Yeh, Rihan. Passing. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018 9780226511887

Table of Contents:

Passage/prohibition
Overview
The line
Inés's "I"
The assembly plant
The place where anything can happen
"They say" in the country club
Prohibition/passage
Overview
Clase media and pueblo before the law
The visa interview
Passes
The street is a river
The stone.