Border Junkies - Addiction and Survival on the Streets of Juarez and El Paso

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: ViajesChapter 2: ArrivalsChapter 3: Down and OutChapter 4: AssimilationsChapter 5: La NavidadChapter 6: New MillenniumChapter 7: Insanity Repeats ItselfChapter 8: MigrationsChapter 9: VigilanceChapter 10: Endings and BeginningsConclusionEpilogueIndex

Product details

• Authors: Scott Comar
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2011
• EAN: 9780292726833
• ISBN: 978-0-292-72683-3
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Inter-America Series; Inter-America (Paperback); Inter-America Series; Inter-America (Paperback); Inter-America
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research