Metropolitan Migrants
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A01=Ruben Hernandez-Leon
american immigration
Author_Ruben Hernandez-Leon
border crossing
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city life
crowded cities
economics
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houston
immigration and emigration
industrial modernization
industrialization
international migration
mexican immigrants
mexican migrants
mexico
migration
migration industry
monterrey
oil industry
political economy
skilled urban workers
social community
social networks
social organization
sociology
texas
united states of america
urban industrial development
working class
Product details
- ISBN 9780520256743
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Sep 2008
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 neighbourhood 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, Ruben Hernandez-Leon deftly traces the effects of restructuring on the lives of the working class, from the national level to the kitchen table.
Ruben Hernandez-Leon is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
