DOC After the Massacre: Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes) by Heonik Kwon in History

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Challenging many common perceptions; this is the first book fully dedicated to understanding a major new phenomenon—the large numbers of skilled urban workers who are now coming across the border from Mexico's cities. Based on a ten-year; on-the-ground study of one working-class neighborhood in Monterrey; Mexico's industrial powerhouse and third-largest city; Metropolitan Migrants explores the ways in which Mexico's economic restructuring and the industrial modernization of the past three decades have pushed a new flow of migrants toward cities such as Houston; Texas; the global capital of the oil industry. Weaving together rich details of everyday life with a lucid analysis of Mexico's political economy; Rubén Hernández-León deftly traces the effects of restructuring on the lives of the working class; from the national level to the kitchen table.