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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464111303321

Autore

Hagan Jacqueline Maria <1954->

Titolo

Skills of the "unskilled" : work and mobility among Mexican migrants / / Jacqueline Maria Hagan, Rubén Hernández-León, Jean-Luc Demonsant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-520-28373-2

0-520-95950-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 p.)

Disciplina

331.5/440896872073

Soggetti

Foreign workers, Mexican - United States

Labor market - Emigration and immigration

Electronic books.

Guanajuato (Mexico) Emigration and immigration Social aspects

United States Emigration and immigration Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Who Are the "Unskilled," Really? -- 2. Learning Skills in Communities of Origin -- 3. Mobilizing Skills and Migrating -- 4. Transferring Skills, Reskilling, and Laboring in the United States -- 5. Returning Home and Reintegrating into the Local Labor Market -- 6. Conclusion -- Methodological Appendix -- NOTES -- References -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Most labor and migration studies classify migrants with limited formal education or credentials as "unskilled." Despite the value of migrants' work experiences and the substantial technical and interpersonal skills developed throughout their lives, the labor-market contributions of these migrants are often overlooked and their mobility pathways poorly understood. Skills of the "Unskilled" reports the findings of a five-year study that draws on research including interviews with 320 Mexican migrants and return migrants in North Carolina and Guanajuato, Mexico. The authors uncover these migrants' lifelong human capital and identify mobility pathways associated with the acquisition and



transfer of skills across the migratory circuit, including reskilling, occupational mobility, job jumping, and entrepreneurship.