Run for the Border: Vice and Virtue in U.S.-Mexico Border Crossings

by Steven Bender and Leo Panitch

Book Overview

Mexico and
the United States exist in a symbiotic relationship: Mexico frequently provides
the United States with cheap labor, illegal goods, and, for criminal offenders,
a refuge from the law. In turn, the U.S. offers Mexican laborers the American
dream: the possibility of a better livelihood through hard work. To supply each
other's demands, Americans and Mexicans have to cross their shared border from
both sides. Despite this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814789528
• ISBN13: 9780814789520
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"