Acknowledgments  ix

Introduction. The Criminalizing Depths of State and Other Shit  3

1. Other Nightmares and the Rise of the New Frontier  29

2. Against Mexico: Thickening Delinquency of the New Frontier  55

3. Low-Intensity Reinforcements: Cholos, Chúntaros, and the "Criminal" Abandonments of the New Frontier  73

Interlude. Post-September 11 at the New Frontier  89

4. Against the United States: The Violent Inaugurations and Delinquent Exceptions of the New Frontier  95

5. Oozing Barrio Libre and the Pathological Ends of Life  115

Interlude. Nervous Cocks at the New Frontier  133

Conclusion. The New Frontier Thickens  137

Notes  147

Bibliography  163

Index  183

"In this raw and compelling ethnography, Gilberto Rosas grapples with the violence, racism, and determined attempts by border youth to build their own sense of freedom in the cage of the US-Mexico border and its economy of escalating inequalities. Barrio Libre is a significant contribution to border and borderlands studies, one that enriches our understanding of the lives of youth."—Lynn Stephen, author of Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon

"Gilberto Rosas's exploration of the seamy underbelly of neoliberal state sovereignty in the sewer tunnels beneath the US-Mexico border takes us to a vexed and murky place, both ethnographically and theoretically. His work invites us to consider provocative and urgent questions about the deep complicity between policing and criminality, and the racialized relegation of human life to abjection and unnatural death on the new frontier. Rosas's insistence upon directing our critical gaze to a dark and dank place of subjection, power, and violence ought to instigate vital new lines of debate in the study of border enforcement and subjectivity within the wild zones of state power."—Nicholas De Genova, coeditor of The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement

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