%0 Journal Article
%T The Border Patrol and Their Migra Corridos: Propaganda, Genre Adaptation, and Mexican Immigration
%A Mar¨ªa Herrera-Sobek
%J American Studies Journal
%D 2012
%I American Studies Journal
%X The U.S. Border Patrol efforts to stop illegal immigration from Mexico to the United States are manifold. In recent times, the U.S. Border Patrol has begun employing so-called corridos, or Mexican ballads, as a means of covert propaganda to slow down illegal immigration. In her article, Mar¨ªa Herrera-Sobek discusses the appropriation of the corrido genre by the U.S. Border Control and analyzes the corridos from the point of view of extra-literary adaptations.
%K United States
%K America
%K Mexico
%K border
%K borderlands
%K border patrol
%K illegal immigration
%K literature
%K Mexican ballads
%K corridos
%U http://www.asjournal.org/archive/57/217.html