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

ISBN-13: 9781138318946 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 180 str.

Maria Eugenia D'Aubeterre; Alison Lee; Maria Leticia Rivermar Perez

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.

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