ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the failure of care for children in Nadia Villafuerte’s (Chiapas, Mexico, 1978) novel, Por el lado salvaje (2011). The damaged child in this novel is a powerful metaphor for exploitative globalization. In the border context, where the migrant child’s innocence is suspect – and hence presages the wrong kind of future – the child is less a symbol of hope than a threat to liberal security.
