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Through multiple perspectives from both sides of the border, the collected essays in 'These Ragged Edges' argue that rapidly changing conditions along the U.S.-Mexico border through the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries have powerfully shaped the ebb and flow of conflict within the region.

Violence --- History. --- Mexican-American Border Region

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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 Calderón'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.

Informal sector (Economics) --- Labor --- Crime --- Texas --- Mexican-American Border Region --- Economic conditions.

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Rotating credit associations --- Mexican Americans --- Economic conditions. --- Mexican-American Border Region --- Social conditions.

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Explores the violent, poignant, and darkly comic world of illegal immigration. Johnny Rico set out to cross the Mexican border as the natives do--over the fence and through the desert.--From publisher description.

Noncitizens --- Rico, Johnny --- Travel --- United States --- Mexican-American Border Region --- Emigration and immigration. --- Description and travel.

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"Brian Behnken offers a sweeping examination of the interactions between Mexican-origin people and law enforcement-both legally codified police agencies and extralegal justice-across the U.S. Southwest (especially Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas) from the 1830s to the 1930s. The long history of the border region between the United States and Mexico has been one marked by periodic violence, but Behnken shows us in unsparing detail how Mexicans and Mexican Americans refused to stand idly by in the face of relentless assault"--

Vigilantism --- Vigilantism --- Law enforcement --- Law enforcement --- Mexican Americans --- Discrimination in law enforcement --- History --- History --- History --- History --- History. --- History. --- Mexican-American Border Region --- Mexican-American Border Region --- History. --- Race relations.