Class, Gender and Migration - 9781138318946

Taylor & Francis

Class, Gender and MigrationReturn Flows between Mexico and the United States in Times of Crisis\nAuthor(s): Mara Eugenia DAubeterre Buznego, Alison Elizabeth Lee, Mara Leticia Rivermar Prez\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138318946, 978-1138318946\nSynopsis\nUsing 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.\n\nBased on ethnographic research carried out over a decade, details of the lives of women and men from two rural communities reveal how neoliberal economic restructuring led to the deterioration of livelihoods starting in the 1980s. Similar restructuring processes in the United States opened up opportunities for Mexican workers to labor in US industries that relied he.