Class, Gender and Migration

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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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