The Remittance Landscape : Spaces of Migration in Rural Mexico and Urban USA / Sarah Lynn Lopez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lopez, Sarah Lynn, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigrant remittances--Mexico.

Emigrant remittances.

Mexicans--United States.

Mexicans.

Mexico--Emigration and immigration.

Mexico.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Immigrants in the United States send more than 0 billion every year back to Mexico-one of the largest flows of such remittances in the world. With The Remittance Landscape, Sarah Lynn Lopez offers the first extended look at what is done with that money, and in particular how the building boom that it has generated has changed Mexican towns and villages. Lopez not only identifies a clear correspondence between the flow of remittances and the recent building boom in rural Mexico but also proposes that this construction boom itself motivates migration and changes social and cultural life for migrants and their families. At the same time, migrants are changing the landscapes of cities in the United States: for example, Chicago and Los Angeles are home to buildings explicitly created as headquarters for Mexican workers from several Mexican states such as Jalisco, Michoacán, and Zacatecas. Through careful ethnographic and architectural analysis, and fieldwork on both sides of the border, Lopez brings migrant hometowns to life and positions them within the larger debates about immigration.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Prologue

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Remittance Space Buildings as Evidence of Social Change

1. The Remittance House Dream Homes at a Distance

2. Tres por Uno The Spatial Legacy of Remittance Policy

3. El Jaripeo The Gendered Spectacle of Remittance

4. La Casa de Cultura Norteño Institutions Transform Public Space

5. In Search of a Better Death Transnational Landscapes for Aging and Dying

6. Migrant Metropolis Remittance Urbanism in the United States

Conclusion: Rethinking Migration and Place

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226202815

022620281X

9780226202952

022620295X