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A colonia resident enjoys a jovial moment with his son. Photograph by Alan Pogue.

Three colonia residents frame a new house in Brownsville. Photograph by Alan Pogue.

A mother walks her daughter to school on an unpaved street of a typical colonia in the Brownsville-Matamoros region. Photograph by Alan Pogue.

Household water trailer rig in a San Enrique colonia in Webb County. This tank is replenished every three weeks at a nearby Shamrock gas station. Photograph by Peter Ward

From Colonias and Public Policy in Texas and Mexico: Urbanization by Stealth by Peter M. Ward, forthcoming 1999. Courtesy of the University of Texas Press.

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