Metropolitan Migrants
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Metropolitan Migrants

The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Metropolitan Migrants

The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. 1. The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States
  3. 2. Urban-Industrial Development in Mexico, 1940–2005
  4. 3. Restructuring and International Migration in a Mexican Urban Neighborhood
  5. 4. The Monterrey-Houston Connection: The Social Organization of Migration and the Economic Incorporation of Immigrants
  6. 5. The Migration Industry in the Monterrey-Houston Connection
  7. 6. Metropolitan Migrants: A New Dimension of Mexico- U.S. Migration
  8. Methodological Appendix
  9. Notes
  10. Bibliography
  11. Index