Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 258 pages)
,
illustrations, map
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0520256735
,
0520256743
,
0520942469
,
9780520256736
,
9780520256743
,
9780520942462
Content:
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
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-245) and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hernández-León, Rubén Metropolitan migrants Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008
Language:
English
URL:
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