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

By Rubén Hernández-León

Challenging many common perceptions, this is the first book fully dedicated to understanding a major new phenomenon--the large numbers of skilled urban workers who are now coming across the border from Mexico's cities. Based on a ten-year, on-the-ground study of one working-class neighborhood in Monterrey, Mexico's industrial powerhouse and third-largest city, Metropolitan Migrants explores the ways in which Mexico's economic restructuring and the industrial modernization of the past three decades have pushed a new flow of migrants toward cities such as Houston, Texas, the global capital of the oil industry. Weaving together rich details of everyday life with a lucid analysis of Mexico's political economy, Rub n Hern ndez-Le n deftly traces the effects of restructuring on the lives of the working class, from the national level to the kitchen table.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520256743
• ISBN13: 9780520256743
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"