REMITTANCE LANDSCAPES

REMITTANCE LANDSCAPES

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Skrevet af LOPEZ

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 but also 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, Michoacán, 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.