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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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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