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Author Lopez, Sarah Lynn, author

Title The remittance landscape : spaces of migration in rural Mexico and urban USA / Sarah Lynn Lopez
Edition 1 Edition
Published Chicago London University of Chicago Press, 2015
©2015

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Description xiv, 315 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction: remittance space: buildings as evidence of social change -- The remittance house: dream homes at a distance -- Tres por uno: the spatial legacy of remittance policy -- El jaripeo: the gendered spectacle of remittance -- La casa de cultura: norteño institutions transform public space -- In search of a better death: transnational landscapes for aging and dying -- Migrant metropolis: remittance urbanism in the United States -- Conclusion: rethinking migration and place
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Emigrant remittances -- Mexico.
Immigrants -- Housing -- Mexico.
Immigrants -- Housing -- United States.
Mexicans -- United States.
SUBJECT Mexico -- Emigration and immigration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115844
LC no. 2014020844
ISBN 022610513X (cloth : alk. paper)
022620281X (paperback: alk. paper)
9780226105130 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226202815 (paperback: alk. paper)
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