The remittance landscape : spaces of migration in rural Mexico and urban USA /

Immigrants in the United States send more than 20 billion every year back to Mexico-one of the largest flows of such remittances in the world. With The Remittance Landscape, Sarah Lynn Lopez offers the first extended look at what is done with that money, and in particular how the building boom that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lopez, Sarah Lynn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Edición:1 edition.
Temas:
Emigrant remittances > Mexico.
Mexicans > United States.
Envois de fonds des émigrants > Mexique.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Finance.
Emigrant remittances.
Emigration and immigration.
Mexicans.
Mexico > Emigration and immigration.
Mexico.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: remittance space: buildings as evidence of social change
  • The remittance house: dream homes at a distance
  • Tres por uno: the spatial legacy of remittance policy
  • El jaripeo: the gendered spectacle of remittance
  • La casa de cultura: norteño institutions transform public space
  • In search of a better death: transnational landscapes for aging and dying
  • Migrant metropolis: remittance urbanism in the United States
  • Conclusion: rethinking migration and place.

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