A nation of emigrants : how Mexico manages its migration /

What do governments do when much of their population simply gets up and walks away? In Mexico and other migrant-sending countries, mass emigration prompts governments to negotiate a new social contract with their citizens abroad. After decades of failed efforts to control outflow, the Mexican state...

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Main Author: FitzGerald, David, 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The politics of absence
  • Inside the sending state
  • The church's eye on its flock
  • Colonies of the little motherland
  • The stranger or the prodigal son?