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Metropolitan Migrants: The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States

Metropolitan Migrants: The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States

Hernández-León, Rubén

Paperback

Immigration & RefugeesMexican HistoryRegional: West

ISBN10: 0520256743
ISBN13: 9780520256743
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Sep 2 2008
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.32 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
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.

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