Informal and Illicit Entrepreneurs: Fighting for a Place in the Neoliberal Economic Order - by Rebecca Galemba
▻http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3819937
From September 2006–2007, I lived within a three-mile clandestine border passage on the Mexico-Guatemala border. Six cross-border communities call this passage home. State agents on both sides of the border regard the passage as an illegal crossing due to the lack of state presence. In contrast, however, its residents (who are often also smugglers) refer to the passage, and the majority of commerce flowing through it, as legitimate, even legal business that provides much-needed local employment. By erecting their own toll-booths where they levy what they call, “taxes,” on all cross-border cargo, residents differentiate the legal, or legitimate, from the illicit in ways distinct from either nation-state.
et un papier plus détaillé de 2012:
▻http://www.academia.edu/2083987/_Corn_is_food_not_contraband_The_right_to_free_trade_at_the_Mexico-Guatema
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