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Metropolitan migrants : the migration of urban Mexicans to the United States / Ruben Hernandez-Leon.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hernández-León, Rubén.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mexicans--United States--Case studies.
- Mexicans.
- Structural adjustment (Economic policy)--Mexico--Monterrey.
- Structural adjustment (Economic policy).
- Mexicans--Texas--Houston.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects--Case studies.
- United States.
- Monterrey (Mexico)--Economic conditions.
- Monterrey (Mexico).
- Monterrey (Mexico)--Emigration and immigration.
- Houston (Tex.)--Emigration and immigration.
- Houston (Tex.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Challenging many common perceptions, this is the first book fully dedicated to understanding a major new phenomenon-the large numbers of skilled urban workers who are now coming across the border from Mexico's cities. Based on a ten-year, on-the-ground study of one working-class neighborhood in Monterrey, Mexico's industrial powerhouse and third-largest city, Metropolitan Migrants explores the ways in which Mexico's economic restructuring and the industrial modernization of the past three decades have pushed a new flow of migrants toward cities such as Houston, Texas, the global capital of the oil industry. Weaving together rich details of everyday life with a lucid analysis of Mexico's political economy, Rubén Hernández-León deftly traces the effects of restructuring on the lives of the working class, from the national level to the kitchen table.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Maps of Monterrey and Houston
- Chapter 1. The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States
- Chapter 2. Urban-Industrial Development in Mexico, 1940-2005
- Chapter 3. Restructuring and International Migration in a Mexican Urban Neighborhood
- Chapter 4. The Monterrey-Houston Connection
- Chapter 5. The Migration Industry in the Monterrey-Houston Connection
- Chapter 6. Metropolitan Migrants
- Methodological Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-245) and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786612360732
- 9781282360730
- 1282360736
- 9780520942462
- 0520942469
- OCLC:
- 773564969
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