Metropolitan migrants [[electronic resource] ] : the migration of urban Mexicans to the United States / / Ruben Hernandez-Leon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780639003321
• Autore: Hernandez-Leon Ruben
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008
• ISBN: 1-282-36073-6; 9786612360732; 0-520-94246-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.00468/72
• Soggetti: Mexicans - United States; Structural adjustment (Economic policy) - Mexico - Monterrey; Mexicans - Texas - Houston; United States Emigration and immigration Economic aspects Case studies; Monterrey (Mexico) Economic conditions; Monterrey (Mexico) Emigration and immigration; Houston (Tex.) Emigration and immigration
• 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 (p. 225-245) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.