The Remittance Landscape: Spaces of Migration in Rural Mexico and Urban USA - Tapa blanda

Lopez, Sarah Lynn

 
9780226202815: The Remittance Landscape: Spaces of Migration in Rural Mexico and Urban USA
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ISBN 10: 022620281X ISBN 13: 9780226202815
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 2015

Sinopsis

Immigrants in the United States send more than $20 billion every year back to Mexico—one of the largest flows of such remittances in the world. With The Remittance Landscape, Sarah Lynn Lopez offers the first extended look at what is done with that money, and in particular how the building boom that it has generated has changed Mexican towns and villages.

Lopez not only identifies a clear correspondence between the flow of remittances and the recent building boom in rural Mexico but also proposes that this construction boom itself motivates migration and changes social and cultural life for migrants and their families. At the same time, migrants are changing the landscapes of cities in the United States: for example, Chicago and Los Angeles are home to buildings explicitly created as headquarters for Mexican workers from several Mexican states such as Jalisco, Michoacán, and Zacatecas. Through careful ethnographic and architectural analysis, and fieldwork on both sides of the border, Lopez brings migrant hometowns to life and positions them within the larger debates about immigration.

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Sarah Lynn Lopez is assistant professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
2015
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
022620281X
ISBN 13 
9780226202815
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
330
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Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 2015
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