Mexico: Playing At Border Crossing In A Mexican Indigenous Community... Seriously

Mexico: Playing At Border Crossing In A Mexican Indigenous Community... Seriously Tamara L. Underiner, 2011   Deep within Mexico, an indigenous community offers tourists the chance to take on the roles of immigrants in a simulated border crossing experience, opening itself to charges that it is a “training camp” for illegal immigration to the United States. On the contrary, it functions as a highly politicized community performance aimed at cultural preservation and assertion, which are...

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