Border Junkies: Addiction and Survival on the Streets of Juárez and El Paso: Inter-America Series
Autor Scott Comar Introducere de Howard Campbellen Limba Engleză Paperback – oct 2011
Border Junkies is the first book ever written about the lifestyle of active addiction on the streets of Juárez. Comar vividly describes living between the disparate Mexican and American cultures and among the fellow junkies, drug dealers, hookers, coyote smugglers, thieves, and killers who were his friends and neighbors in addiction—and the social workers, missionaries, shelter workers, and doctors who tried to help him escape. With the perspective of his anthropological training, he shows how homelessness, poverty, and addiction all fuel the use of narcotics and the rise in their consumption on the streets of Juárez and contribute to the societal decay of this Mexican urban landscape. Comar also offers significant insights into the U.S.-Mexico borderland's underground and peripheral economy and the ways in which the region's inhabitants adapt to the local economic terrain.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780292726833
ISBN-10: 029272683X
Pagini: 246
Ilustrații: 26 b&w photographs in section
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Seria Inter-America Series
ISBN-10: 029272683X
Pagini: 246
Ilustrații: 26 b&w photographs in section
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Seria Inter-America Series
Notă biografică
Scott Comar has held a variety of jobs, including construction laborer, furniture mover, and long distance truck driver. After recovering from addiction, he earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Texas at El Paso, where he is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in borderlands history.
Cuprins
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Viajes
- Chapter 2: Arrivals
- Chapter 3: Down and Out
- Chapter 4: Assimilations
- Chapter 5: La Navidad
- Chapter 6: New Millennium
- Chapter 7: Insanity Repeats Itself
- Chapter 8: Migrations
- Chapter 9: Vigilance
- Chapter 10: Endings and Beginnings
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Index
Descriere
From the sweaty summer days of a junky’s nightmare to the bittersweet success of true surrender and emergence into a new way of life, Border Junkies paints a searing, first-hand portrait of addiction, poverty, and recovery on the U.S.-Mexico border.