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Author Hernández-León, Rubén

Title Metropolitan migrants : the migration of urban Mexicans to the United States / Rubén Hernández-León
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 258 pages)
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-245) and index
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Subject 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
SUBJECT United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects -- Case studies
Monterrey (Mexico) -- Economic conditions
Monterrey (Mexico) -- Emigration and immigration
Houston (Tex.) -- Emigration and immigration
Subject Mexico -- Monterrey
Texas -- Houston
United States
Houston, Tex.
USA
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021696702
ISBN 9780520942462
0520942469
0520256735
9780520256736
0520256743
9780520256743