Skills of the Unskilled: Work and Mobility Among Mexican Migrants by Hagan, Jacqueline

Skills of the Unskilled: Work and Mobility Among Mexican Migrants (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520283732)

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Skills of the Unskilled: Work and Mobility Among Mexican Migrants by Hagan, Jacqueline

Skills of the Unskilled: Work and Mobility Among Mexican Migrants

$29.95
Skills of the Unskilled: Work and Mobility Among Mexican Migrants by Hagan, Jacqueline

Skills of the Unskilled: Work and Mobility Among Mexican Migrants

$29.95
Format: Paperback
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Most labor and migration studies classify migrants with limited formal education or credentials as "unskilled." Despite the value of migrants' work experiences and the substantial technical and interpersonal skills developed throughout their lives, the labor-market contributions of these migrants are often overlooked and their mobility pathways poorly understood. Skills of the "Unskilled" reports the findings of a five-year study that draws on research including interviews with 320 Mexican migrants and return migrants in North Carolina and Guanajuato, Mexico. The authors uncover these migrants' lifelong human capital and identify mobility pathways associated with the acquisition and transfer of skills across the migratory circuit, including reskilling, occupational mobility, job jumping, and entrepreneurship.

Author: Jacqueline Hagan, Ruben Hernandez-Leon, Jean-Luc Demonsant
ISBN-10: 0520283732
ISBN-13: 9780520283732
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 03/17/2015
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.70d

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Choice 01/01/2016
By Jacqueline Hagan
By Jacqueline Hagan
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Jacqueline Maria Hagan is Robert G. Parr Distinguished Term Professor of Sociology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests include international migration, labor markets, gender, religion, and human rights. She is author of Deciding to Be Legal and Migration Miracle.

Rub駭 Hern疣dez-Le is Associate Professor of Sociology at University of California, Los Angeles, and Director of the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies. He is the author of Metropolitan Migrants: The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States (UC Press) and the coeditor of New Destinations: Mexican Immigration in the United States.

Jean-Luc Demonsant is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Toulouse School of Economics. He employs a mixed-methods approach to the study of migration, focusing on migration and remittances, and social status and schooling choices among migrant families.

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