Metropolitan migrants : the migration of urban Mexicans to the United States / / Ruben Hernandez-Leon
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| Autore: |
Hernandez-Leon Ruben
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| Titolo: |
Metropolitan migrants : the migration of urban Mexicans to the United States / / Ruben Hernandez-Leon
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 973.00468/72 |
| Soggetto topico: | Mexicans - United States |
| Structural adjustment (Economic policy) - Mexico - Monterrey | |
| Mexicans - Texas - Houston | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Emigration and immigration Economic aspects Case studies |
| Monterrey (Mexico) Economic conditions | |
| Monterrey (Mexico) Emigration and immigration | |
| Houston (Tex.) Emigration and immigration | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Metropolitan migrants |
| ISBN: | 1-282-36073-6 |
| 9786612360732 | |
| 0-520-94246-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809252303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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