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- Metropolitan Migrants: The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Methodological Appendix
- pp. 199-212
- Bibliography
- pp. 225-246
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520942462
Related ISBN(s)
9780520256743
MARC Record
OCLC
667014003
Pages
272
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No