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Remittance Landscape

Name: Remittance Landscape
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 04544390
Price: 38.69 EUR
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Author: Sarah Lynn Lopez
ISBN: 9780226202815

Spaces of Migration in Rural Mexico and Urban USA

Sarah Lynn Lopez

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English

Book Paperback

Libristo code: 04544390

Publishers The University of Chicago Press, January 2015

Immigrants in the United States send more than $20 billion every year back to Mexico - one of the la... Full description

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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, she 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, Michoacan, 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.