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  • Galemba CV Dec. 2023

  • Contraband Corridor

  • My first book, Contraband Corridor: Making a Living at the Mexico-Guatemala Borderwas published by Stanford University Press in Denver 2017 (2018 copyright). The book explores how people who live along the Mexico-Guatemala border experience regional trade integration and security policies as they justify smuggling basic goods across the border in order to earn a living.

    As the Mexico-Guatemala border has emerged in recent years as a geopolitical hotspot to contain illicit flows, the book seeks to understand the border from the perspective of its long-term inhabitants. It challenges simplistic assumptions regarding security, trade, and illegality by ethnographically detailing how residents along the Mexico-Guatemala border engage in, and justify, extra-legal practices in the context of heightened border security, restricted economic opportunities, and official regional trade integration policies that exclude regional inhabitants.

    The research was funded by fieldwork grant from the Wenner Gren Foundation and a Craig M. Cogut Disseration writing fellowship from Brown University's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The dissertation, upon which the book is based, won the New English Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS) best disseration prize in 2010. The book has been reviewed in New York Journal of Books, Border Criminologies, Rutgers Criminal Law & Criminal Justice Books, American Anthropologist, Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR), Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe

    The book's cover (author photo) was chosen for the cover of Stanford University Press' Anthropology 2018 book catalogue.

    The Spanish translation, La Cadena: Vida y negocio en el límite entre México y Guatemala, was published by UNAM-CIMSUR in May 2021.

    The Spanish version is free to download or order at:

    https://www.cimsur.unam.mx/index.php/publicaciones/recientes?Publicacion=156

     

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