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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 and their families.
At the same time, migrants are changing the landscapes of cities in
the United States: for example, Chicago and Los Angeles are home to
buildings explicitly created as headquarters for Mexican workers
from several Mexican states such as Jalisco, Michoacan, and
Zacatecas. Through careful ethnographic and architectural analysis,
and fieldwork on both sides of the border, Lopez brings migrant
hometowns to life and positions them within the larger debates
about immigration.
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 and their families.
At the same time, migrants are changing the landscapes of cities in
the United States: for example, Chicago and Los Angeles are home to
buildings explicitly created as headquarters for Mexican workers
from several Mexican states such as Jalisco, Michoacan, and
Zacatecas. Through careful ethnographic and architectural analysis,
and fieldwork on both sides of the border, Lopez brings migrant
hometowns to life and positions them within the larger debates
about immigration.
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