Inhalt: A nation of smugglers -- The Colonial Era. The golden age of illicit trade -- The smuggling road to revolution -- The smuggling war of independence. -- The Early Republic. Contraband and embargo busting in the new nation -- Traitorous traders and patriotic pirates -- The illicit industrial revolution. -- Westward Expansion, Slavery, and the Civil War. Bootleggers and fur traders in Indian country -- Illicit slavers and the perpetuation of the slave trade -- Blood cotton and blockade-runners. -- The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. Tariff evaders and enforcers -- Sex, smugglers, and purity crusaders -- Coming to America through the back door -- Rumrunners and prohibitionists. -- Into the Modern Age. America's century-long drug war -- Border wars and the underside of economic integration -- America and illicit globalization in the twenty-first century
Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-425) and index. - Orig.-Ausg.: 2013 Systematik: 364.1 Umfang: XIII, 454 S. : Ill., Kt. Standort: 364.1 Smu ISBN: 978-0-19-936098-7
Inhalt: Illegal aliens -- Crimes against -- Mexican-American Border Region. Human smuggling -- Mexican-American Border Region. Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects. United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects. Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions.
So many illegal immigrants die in the desert Southwest of the U.S. that only notorious catastrophes make headlines. Urrea reconstructs one such incident in the Sonoran Desert, the ordeal of sun and thirst of two dozen men in May 2001, half of whom suffered excruciating deaths. They came from Vera Cruz; their so-called guide came from Guadalajara.esus Lopez Ramos was no master of orienteering, however, just an expendable bottom-feeder in the border's human-smuggling racket. Tracing their lives and the routes to the border, Urrea adopts a slangy, surreal style in which the desert landscape shimmers and distorts, while in desiccated border settlements criminals, officials, and vigilantes patrol for human cargo such as the men from Vera Cruz. The imaginative license Urrea takes, paralleling the laconic facts of the case that he incorporates into his narrative, produces a powerful, almost diabolical impression of the disaster and the exploitative conditions at the border. Urrea shows immigration policy on the human level. Systematik: 818 , , 325, , 304.8 Umfang: 239 S. Standort: 818 Urr ISBN: 978-0-316-01080-1
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