Metropolitan migrants : the migration of urban Mexicans to the United States

Metropolitan migrants : the migration of urban Mexicans to the United States / Rubén Hernández-León.

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...

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Main Author: Hernández-León, Rubén
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
Mexicans > United States > Case studies.
Structural adjustment (Economic policy) > Mexico > Monterrey.
Mexicans > Texas > Houston.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Economic history
Emigration and immigration
Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects
Mexicans
Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
Mexikanischer Einwanderer
United States > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects > Case studies.
Monterrey (Mexico) > Economic conditions.
Monterrey (Mexico) > Emigration and immigration.
Houston (Tex.) > Emigration and immigration.
Mexico > Monterrey
Texas > Houston
United States
Houston, Tex.
USA
Case studies
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Summary: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 resource (xi, 258 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-245) and index.
ISBN:9780520942462
0520942469
0520256735
9780520256736
0520256743
9780520256743
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

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