A nation of emigrants : how Mexico manages its migration /

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What do governments do when much of their population simply gets up and walks away? In Mexico and other migrant-sending countries, mass emigration prompts governments to negotiate a new social contract with their citizens abroad. After decades of failed efforts to control outflow, the Mexican state...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: FitzGerald, David, 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
Subjects:
Geschichte 1900-2009
Return migration > Mexico.
Mexicans > United States.
Migration de retour > Mexique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Emigration and immigration > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Mexicans.
Return migration.
Auswanderungspolitik
Rückwanderung
Emigratie.
Remigratie.
Migratiebeleid.
Religieuze aspecten.
Mexico > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Mexico > Emigration and immigration > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Mexico.
United States.
Mexiko
Jalisco.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The politics of absence
  • Inside the sending state
  • The church's eye on its flock
  • Colonies of the little motherland
  • The stranger or the prodigal son?

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