Metropolitan migrants
Subtitle: the migration of urban Mexicans to the United States
By: Rubén Hernández-León.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780520256736; 9780520256743
Subjects: Mexicans -- United States -- Case studies; Structural adjustment (Economic policy) -- Mexico -- Monterrey; Mexicans -- Texas -- Houston; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects -- Case studies; Monterrey (Mexico) -- Economic conditions; Monterrey (Mexico) -- Emigration and immigration; Houston (Tex.) -- Emigration and immigration
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-245) and index.
Table of contents: title: The migration of urban Mexicans to the United States; title: Urban-industrial development in Mexico, 1940-2005; title: Restructuring and international migration in a Mexican urban neighborhood; title: The Monterrey-Houston connection : the social organization of migration and the economic incorporation of immigrants; title: The migration industry in the Monterrey-Houston connection; title: Metropolitan migrants : a new dimension of Mexico-U.S. migration.