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ISBN: 9780776606514-05

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Fayuca Hormiga: The Cross-border Trade of Used Clothing between the United States and Mexico

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This chapter details the “unauthorized” flow of used clothing across the US-Mexico border in light of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the twin cities of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, over a period of twelve months between 2003 and 2005.

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Mélissa Gauthier

Melissa Gauthier is a PhD candidate in Humanities at Concordia University, Canada.