Metropolitan Migrants : The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hernández-León, Ruben
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Mexikanischer Einwanderer
Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
Mexicans.
Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
Emigration and immigration.
Economic history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Mexicains > Texas > Houston.
Ajustement structurel (Économie) > Mexique > Monterrey.
Mexicans > Texas > Houston.
Structural adjustment (Economic policy) > Mexico > Monterrey.
Mexicans > United States > Case studies.
USA.
Houston, Tex.
United States.
Texas > Houston.
Mexico > Monterrey.
Houston (Tex.) > Emigration and immigration.
Monterrey (Mexico) > Emigration and immigration.
Monterrey (Mexico) > Economic conditions.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects > Case studies.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (272 pages).
ISBN:9780520942462

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