Metropolitan migrants: the migration of urban Mexicans to the United States
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Main Author: Hernández-León, Rubén (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley University of California Press ©2008
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-245) and index
The migration of urban Mexicans to the United States -- Urban-industrial development in Mexico, 1940-2005 -- Restructuring and international migration in a Mexican urban neighborhood -- The Monterrey-Houston connection : the social organization of migration and the economic incorporation of immigrants -- The migration industry in the Monterrey-Houston connection -- Metropolitan migrants : a new dimension of Mexico-U.S. migration
Challenging many common perceptions, this book is dedicated to understanding a major new phenomenon - the large number of skilled urban workers who are coming to America from Mexico's cities. Based on a ten-year study of one working-class neighbourhood in Monterrey, the book studies the forces that lead to Mexican emigration
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 258 pages)
ISBN:0520942469
9780520942462

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