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The Remittance Landscape
Sarah Lynn Lopez
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Description for The Remittance Landscape
Paperback. 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. The author 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. Num Pages: 336 pages, 69 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFFN; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 31. Weight in Grams: 550.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
549 g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226202815
SKU
V9780226202815
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About Sarah Lynn Lopez
Sarah Lynn Lopez is assistant professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.
Reviews for The Remittance Landscape
"Lopez breaks new ground in her study of the remittance landscape in all sorts of important ways. She provocatively links the rural and the urban, the north and the south, and her sympathy for her subjects is clear as she weaves into her narrative an unsparing analysis of Mexican state policy. The devastating consequences unfold, chapter by chapter, as Lopez ... Read more