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

by Rubén Hernández-León

Book Overview

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...

• 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"