Profiles of triumph and hardship amid massive inequality in Latin America.

• Introduction (Alison Coffey and Javier Auyero)
• Chapter 1. Soraya, la Reina del Sur in Nicaragua (Dennis Rodgers)
• Chapter 2. Maíra: Mothering and Struggle in the Shadow of State Violence (Alison Coffey)
• Chapter 3. Rodrigo: “Many Secrets, Nothing to Hide”—Security Entrepreneurship in Mexico City (Eldad Levy)
• Chapter 4. Fabio and Angélica: The Resistance of Staying Put (Alex Diamond)
• Chapter 5. Doris Huaiquian: Newen, Tenacity of Spirit (Cinthya E. Ammerman)
• Chapter 6. Aurelia: Displacement, Toxicity, and the Struggle for Home (Maricarmen Hernández)
• Chapter 7. Hamid: A Life Deferred in Brazil (Katherine Jensen)
• Chapter 8. María: Obligated by Circumstances—From Temporary to Precariously Permanent in the United States (Jennifer Scott)
• Chapter 9. Ezequiel: A Laburante in Argentina’s Relegated Neighborhoods (Marcos Perez)
• Chapter 10. Nelson and Celia: Feeling Potholes and Debt in the Bones (Jorge Derpic)
• Chapter 11. Big Love: A Political Broker at Work (Javier Auyero and Sofía Servián)
• Chapter 12. Alberto: Service Work and Social Change in Argentina (Katherine Sobering)
• Afterword (Javier Auyero)
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Index

Javier Auyero is the author or coauthor of many books, including The Ambivalent State: Police-Criminal Collusion at the Urban Margins. He is the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor in Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, and Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country.