ISBN:
9780520942462
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (273 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
DDC:
973.0046872
Keywords:
Geschichte 1940-2005
;
Mexikanischer Einwanderer
;
Mexikaner
;
Migrationspolitik
;
USA
;
Houston, Tex.
;
Mexiko
Abstract:
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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