UID:
almafu_9959232824402883
Format:
1 online resource (273 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-36073-6
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9786612360732
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0-520-94246-9
Content:
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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Description based upon print version of record.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Illustrations --
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Acknowledgments --
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Maps of Monterrey and Houston --
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Chapter 1. The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States --
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Chapter 2. Urban-Industrial Development in Mexico, 1940-2005 --
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Chapter 3. Restructuring and International Migration in a Mexican Urban Neighborhood --
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Chapter 4. The Monterrey-Houston Connection --
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Chapter 5. The Migration Industry in the Monterrey-Houston Connection --
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Chapter 6. Metropolitan Migrants --
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Methodological Appendix --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-25674-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-25673-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520942462
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