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

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

By María Eugenia D’Aubeterre Buznego, Alison Elizabeth Lee, María Leticia Rivermar Pérez Copyright 2020
194 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

194 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

194 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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. Based on ethnographic research carried out over a decade, details of the lives of women and men... Read more

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

Biography

María Eugenia D'Aubeterre Buznego is Professor of Anthropology in the Social Science and Humanities Institute of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico.

Alison Elizabeth Lee is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico.

María Leticia Rivermar Pérez is Professor of Anthropology in the Social Science and Humanities Institute of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico.

"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 21st century capitalism." — Belinda Leach, University of Guelph, Canada

Recipient of a 2021 Choice Outstanding Award

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