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The Informal and Underground Economy of the South Texas Border (Paperback)
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The Informal and Underground Economy of the South Texas Border (Paperback)
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Much has been debated about the presence of undocumented workers
along the South Texas border, but these debates often overlook the
more complete dimension: the region's longstanding, undocumented
economies as a whole. Borderlands commerce that evades government
scrutiny can be categorized into informal economies (the unreported
exchange of legal goods and services) or underground economies
(criminal economic activities that, obviously, occur without
government oversight). Examining long-term study, observation, and
participation in the border region, with the assistance of hundreds
of locally embedded informants, The Informal and Underground
Economy of the South Texas Border presents unique insights into the
causes and ramifications of these economic channels. The third
volume in UT-Pan American's Borderlife Project, this eye-opening
investigation draws on vivid ethnographic interviews, bolstered by
decades of supplemental data, to reveal a culture where divided
loyalties, paired with a lack of access to protection under the law
and other forms of state-sponsored recourse, have given rise to
social spectra that often defy stereotypes. A cornerstone of the
authors' findings is that these economic activities increase when
citizens perceive the state's intervention as illegitimate, whether
in the form of fees, taxes, or regulation. From living conditions
in the impoverished colonias to President Felipe Calderon's futile
attempts to eradicate police corruption in Mexico, this book is a
riveting portrait of benefit versus risk in the wake of a
"no-man's-land" legacy.
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