| Description |
1 online resource (300 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Who are the "unskilled", really? -- Learning skills in communities of origin -- Mobilizing skills and migrating -- Transferring skills, reskilling, and laboring in the United States -- Returning home and reintegrating into the local labor market -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
"Most labor and migration studies classify migrants with limited formal education or credentials as 'unskilled.' Despite the value of their work experiences and the substantial technical and interpersonal skills developed throughout their lives, their labor market contributions are often overlooked and their mobility pathways poorly understood. Skills of the Unskilled reports the findings of a five-year study that draws on binational research including interviews with 320 Mexican migrants and return migrants in North Carolina and Guanajuato, Mexico. The authors uncover their 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."--Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Foreign workers, Mexican -- United States.
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Labor market -- Emigration and immigration.
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Guanajuato (Mexico) -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00908722
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Foreign workers, Mexican. (OCoLC)fst01729163
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Mexico -- Guanajuato.
(OCoLC)fst01215888
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Added Author |
Hernández-León, Rubén, author.
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Demonsant, Jean-Luc, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hagan, Jacqueline Maria, 1954- Skills of the "unskilled" 9780520283725 (DLC) 2014032691 (OCoLC)890127836 |
| ISBN |
9780520959507 (electronic bk.) |
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0520959507 (electronic bk.) |
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