Metropolitan Migrants - The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States

Informationen zum Autor Rubén Hernández-León is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California! Los Angeles. Klappentext 97388945 Zusammenfassung Explores the ways in which Mexico's economic restructuring and the industrial modernization have pushed a new flow of migrants toward cities such as Houston, Texas, the global capital of the oil industry. This work traces the effects of restructuring on the lives of the working class, from the national level to the kitchen table. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Map of Monterrey and Houston 1. The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States 2. Urban-Industrial Development in Mexico! 1940-2005 3. Restructuring and International Migration in a Mexican Urban Neighborhood 4. The Monterrey-Houston Connection: The Social Organization of Migration and the Economic Incorporation of Immigrants 5. The Migration Industry in the Monterrey-Houston Connection 6. Metropolitan Migrants: A New Dimension of Mexico-U.S. Migration Methodological Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Ruben Hernandez-Leon, Rubén Hernández-León
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.09.2008
• EAN: 9780520256743
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25674-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; USA, Mexico, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Migration, immigration & emigration, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples