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Author Hernández-León, Rubén.

Title Metropolitan migrants : the migration of urban Mexicans to the United States / Rubén Hernández-León.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]
©2008
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 258 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-245) and index.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Mexicans -- United States -- Case studies.
Mexicans.
United States.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects -- Case studies.
Emigration and immigration.
Structural adjustment (Economic policy) -- Mexico -- Monterrey.
Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
Mexico -- Monterrey.
Monterrey (Mexico) -- Economic conditions.
Monterrey (Mexico) -- Emigration and immigration.
Mexicans -- Texas -- Houston.
Texas -- Houston.
Houston (Tex.) -- Emigration and immigration.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Economic history.
Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects.
USA.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books -- Electronic books -- Case studies.
Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: Metropolitan migrants Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008. 9780520256736 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2007044596
ISBN 9780520942462 ebook
0520942469
9780520256736 cloth alkaline paper
9780520256743 paperback alkaline paper
0520256735 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780520256736
0520256743 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780520256743

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