Class, Gender and Migration: Return Flows Between Mexico and the United States in Times of Crisis

ISBN-13: 9780367520984 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 180 str.

María Eugenia D'Aubeterre Buznego; Alison Elizabeth Lee; María Leticia Rivermar Pérez

Opis

Using a gender-sensitive political economy approach, this book analyzes the emergence of new migration patterns between Central Mexico and the East Coast of the United States in the last decades of the twentieth century, and return migration during and after the global economic crisis of 2007.

Recenzje

"This rich book has two integrative virtues. It uses a materialist, feminist perspective that integrates production and reproduction. And it tells a historical story of transformation, growth, decline of migration, in a narrative that integrates Mexico and the United States. Scholars will value these sophisticated perspectives." - Josiah Heyman, University of Texas at El Paso, USA

"With its rich interplay of theory and ethnographic detail, Class, Gender and Migration brings life and analytical rigour to the historical processes of economic restructuring that shape migrants' lives. Turning a penetrating gender and class lens on the linked experiences of Mexican migrants in the US and in Mexico, and the back and forth between these, it beautifully demonstrates how careful studies of migration can reveal the workings of 21^st century capitalism." - Belinda Leach, University of Guelph, Canada

Spis treści

1. Understanding Accelerated and Return Migration in Central Mexico: Migration, Class and Gender  2. Rural Central Mexico and the East Coast of the United States: Articulating Surplus Labor and Restructured Economies  3. Disarticulation of Agriculture, Transition to a Service Economy in the Sierra Norte of Puebla and Accelerated   Migration to the Nuevo New South  4. "I was motivated to do everything": Undocumented ‘entrepreneurs of the self’ in New York  5. Deceleration of migration and the selectivity of return migration in the Northern Sierra of Puebla  6. "In Zapotitlán, we won’t have to pay for so many things": The Great Recession, Return Migration and Social Reproduction  7. Economic Crisis and the Social Reproduction of Mexican Transnational Working Classes