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When I wear my alligator boots : narco-culture in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Shaylih Muehlmann

Muehlmann, Shaylih [1979-...] cop. 2014

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  • Titre:
    When I wear my alligator boots : narco-culture in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Shaylih Muehlmann
  • Auteur: Muehlmann, Shaylih [1979-...]
  • Éditeur: Berkeley, Los Angeles, London : University of California Press, cop. 2014
  • Sujets: Drogues -- Lutte contre -- États-Unis;
    Drogues -- Lutte contre -- Frontières -- Amérique latine;
    Drogues -- Trafic -- États-Unis;
    Drogues -- Trafic -- Frontières -- Amérique latine;
    Pauvres en milieu rural -- Mexique;
    Drug control -- United States;
    Drug control -- Mexican-American Border Region;
    Drug traffic -- United States;
    Drug traffic -- Mexican-American Border Region;
    Rural poor -- Mexico;
    Amérique latine -- Frontières -- Conditions sociales;
    Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions;
    Mexico;
    North America -- Mexican-American Border Region;
    United States
  • Notes: Bibliogr. p. 205-217. Index
  • Contient: Machine generated contents note: 1.Narco-Wives, Beauty Queens, and a Mother's Bribes 2."When I Wear My Alligator Boots" 3."A Narco without a Corrido Doesn't Exist" 4.The View from Cruz's Throne 5.Moving the Money When the Bank Accounts Get Full 6."Now They Wear Tennis Shoes
  • Résumé: "This book tells the story of the poor, often indigenous workers living in the borderlands who are recruited to work in the lowest echelons of the drug trade, as burreros (mules) and narcotraficantes (traffickers). Shayleh Muehlmann spent over a year researching in a small community in the borderlands. This book brings her stories to a wider public, narrating the experiences of a group of indigenous fishermen in northern Mexico who have become involved in the drug trade, and exploring how the narco-economy has provided a reprieve for men and women attempting to survive while their primary form of livelihood, fishing, has been criminalized by the state because of its alleged negative environmental impact. The book examines the rise of narcotrafficking as one of the economic alternatives sought by local people and how this work is seen by many as a way of resisting forms of domination imposed on them by both the Mexican and U.S. governments. Muehlmann explores a tension at the heart of the "war on drugs." For many men and women living in poverty, the narco-economy represents an alternative to the exploitation and alienation they experience trying to work in the borderland's legal economy which has been increasingly dominated by the presence of U.S.-owned maquiladoras (assembly plants) and ravaged by environmental degradation. Despite the lawlessness and violence of the cartels and the ruinous consequences this process has had for some of the most vulnerable people involved, narco-trafficking represents one of the few promises of upward mobility for the indigenous poor in Mexico's north. "--
  • Langue: Anglais
  • Date d'édition: cop. 2014
  • Identifiant: 978-0-520-27677-2 ; 0-520-27677-9 ; 978-0-520-27678-9 ; 0-520-27678-7 ; 0-520-95718-0 ; 978-0-520-95718-3
  • Desc. matérielle: 1 vol. (XIV-226) : ill., couv. ill. en coul., cartes ; 21 cm
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