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

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 borderland...

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Main Author:	Muehlmann, Shaylih, 1979- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
Subjects:	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration. Drug control > United States. Drug control > Mexican-American Border Region. Drug traffic > United States. Drug traffic > Mexican-American Border Region. Mexican-American Border Region > Social conditions. Rural poor > Mexico.