| Metropolitan Migrants: The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States Contributor(s): Hernández-León, Rubén (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520256743 ISBN-13: 9780520256743 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - History | Latin America - Mexico - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) |
| Dewey: 973.004 |
| LCCN: 2007044596 |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 6.32" W x 8.96" (0.81 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - Mexican - Locality - Houston, Texas - Geographic Orientation - Texas - Ethnic Orientation - Chicano - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |