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Contagion, networks and outlaws: talking about migration
December 12, 2005.

I spoke with Judith Adler Hellman the other day about Mexican migration to the north. Hellman is the Canadian political scientist who 10 years ago wrote Mexican Lives, a fascinating study of the daily lives of women and men from a variety of social and economic settings that managed to illuminate a sense of contemporary Mexico. Now she has turned her attention to migration, and has been interviewing people on both sides of the border to get a sense of what that process is all about.
"Going to the other side is contagious," she told me. "Many young men â€â€