Hardships that face transmigrants working in agriculture include the potential for drug use. Reliant on village-based networks that facilitate border crossing and developing a plan for a destination within this country, transmigrants who try new drugs/alcohol and/or continue on accustomed drugs/alcohol are facilitated in these endeavors through locally generated networks as alternative forms of access and support. Seven cases of undocumented men from Mexico are reviewed to show how use of illicit drugs is minimally affected by economic success and time in the United States, or village-based networks that first facilitated entry into this country. Prior conditions, especially childhood difficulties and search for socioeconomic autonomy, precipitate new and/or continuing drug use within the United States on this side of the border, where both forms of drug use are facilitated by locally generated networks.
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- Shifting From Village-Based Networks to Locally Generated Networks: Undocumented Mexican Agricultural Workers Who Use/Used Hard Drugs
- Bletzer, Keith (Author)
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Contributor)
- Digital object identifier: 10.1155/2017/4387125
- Identifier TypeInternational standard serial numberIdentifier Value2090-4045
- Identifier TypeInternational standard serial numberIdentifier Value2090-4053
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Bletzer, K. V. (2017). Shifting from Village-Based Networks to Locally Generated Networks: Undocumented Mexican Agricultural Workers Who Use/Used Hard Drugs. Journal of Anthropology, 2017, 1-13. doi:10.1155/2017/4387125