Metropolitan Migrants
：The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States
Publication subTitle ：The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States
Author： Hernández-León > Rubén
Publisher： University Of California Press
Publication year： 2008
E-ISBN: 9780520942462
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780520256743
Subject： D523.8 移民、侨民;D523.91 难民
Keyword： 世界政治
Language： ENG
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Description
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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