Review: Lives on the Line: Dispatches from the U.S.-Mexican Border

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Review: Lives on the Line: Dispatches from the U.S.-Mexican Border By Miriam Davidson Reviewed by Xavier E. Gros Mitsui Babcock Ltd., Scotland Davidson Miriam. Lives on the Line: Dispatches from the U.S.-Mexico Border. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2000. 211 pp. ISBN 0-8165-1998-6 (softcover). US$17.95. Recycled, acid-free paper.

A tale of modern slavery at the U.S.-Mexico border, Lives on the Line reports on the lives of Mexican immigrants and their exploitation by international factories (or maquiladoras) in the twin cities of Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora. Davidson combines documentation gathered through indepth research with interviews to compile vivid …