Metropolitan Migrants
Autor: | Ruben Hernandez-Leon |
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EAN: | 9780520942462 |
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | eBook |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 02.09.2008 |
Untertitel: | The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States |
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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, Ruben Hernandez-Leon deftly traces the effects of restructuring on the lives of the working class, from the national level to the kitchen table.