The world of Mexican migrants : the rock and the hard place

Immigrants

Migrant labor--United States

Mexican Americans social conditions

Hellman offers a lucid overview of Mexican immigration to the U.S., beginning with profiles of the “sending communities”—small Mexican villages that have lost more than half their population to migration—and the sense of abandonment of those left behind, and the concomitant decline in the local economy. Increasingly dangerous and expensive border crossings have forced seasonal workers to either remain in the U.S. or return home permanently. Hellman looks beyond polemics to the real lives of Mexican migrants and the basics of life on both sides of the border. Hellman asks why Mexicans come to the US, what they experience here, and how they decide whether to stay or return home.

Hellman, Judith Adler

The World of Mexican migrants: the rock and the hard place, available at Yakima Valley Libraries. Call number: 305.86872073 HELLMAN 2008.

The New Press

2008