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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780520256743
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-520-25674-3
- Verlag: The University of California Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 02.09.2008
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2008
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Trade Paperback
- Gewicht: 363 g
- Seiten: 272
- Format (B x H x T): 152 x 229 x 18 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt