4. “I Feel Sorry for Them”

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. What Happened to the Mexican Miracle? 11
6. 2. “Struggling to Get Ahead” 26
7. 3. “No One Lives There” 41
8. 4. “I Feel Sorry for Them” 50
9. 5. “It Used to Be Easy to Cross the Border” 59
10. 6. “In the United States All You Do Is Work” 70
11. 7. “For Me It Is about the Same” 82
12. 8. “Mexicans Are Good Workers” 89
13. 9. “We Can Never Hang Out with Our Friends” 103
14. 10. “They Only Send You Back if You Are Bad” 111
15. 11. “We Must Carry On Our Ancestors’ Traditions” 119
16. 12. “I Don’t Have Much in Common with My Cousin” 127
17. 13. The System Is Broken 135
18. Suggested Readings and References 153
19. Acknowledgments 159