Free trade?: informal economies at the U.S.-Mexico border

Abstract

Introduction: culture, politics, and informal economies at the U.S.-Mexican border -- Gazing at space: borders, institutions, informality, and political community -- Contextualizing a border global city: Ju(c)Łrez-El Paso -- Finding and making work within and across borders: the informal underbelly at the border -- Moving within and across borders for land and shelter -- Getting public services: reflections on political community in the urban peripheries -- Engaging political community: surveillance, public accountability, and seeds across the border -- Moving from the border to the mainstream: conclusions and implications