Rural Development and Urban-Bound Migration in Mexico
Rural Development and Urban-Bound Migration in Mexico

Author: Arthur Silvers

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-12-22

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 1317270681

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Rapid growth of urban populations is a major characteristic of economic development and demographic change in developing countries leading to industrialisation and modernisation of major cities. Originally published in 1980, this study focusses on these issues using Mexico as a case study as well as analysing the risk of over-urbanisation and what the effects will be on cities such as Mexico City. This title will be of interest to students of Environmental studies and Economics.

Searching for Rural Development
Searching for Rural Development

Author: Merilee S. Grindle

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2019-01-24

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1501734873

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Throughout the Third World, rural people must leave their homes in ever greater numbers to seek temporary work in urban centers, in distant rural areas, or across international borders. This temporary labor migration, less an option than a necessity for many, is symptomatic of rural stagnation and increasing economic dependence and is most prevalent in regions where the base for agricultural development is poor. Searching for Rural Development addresses the critical question of how rural development strategies can help provide more secure livelihoods for the millions who are now unable to sustain themselves and their families in local communities. Focusing on Mexico, Merilee S. Grindle examines how rural families adapt to the paucity of local employment opportunities by pursuing complex strategies of income diversification. She assesses various options for creating jobs in rural and semirural areas and considers how recommended rural development policies can be implemented through the political process.

Cooking - and Coping - Among the Cacti
Cooking - and Coping - Among the Cacti

Author: Roberta Dale Baer

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9789056995751

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Using data collected from 105 households in Sonora, Mexico, the author combines detailed ethnographic research with quantitative analyses of income, diet, and nutritional status to examine the dietary patterns of residents who "cook and cope among the cacti." Employing a new analytical concept of "available income" - which can differ greatly from total income and provide valuable insight into why people eat what they do - the work explores a variety of social and cultural factors that affect food expenditure and consumption. Home production of food and the extent to which women are employed outside of the home are just two of the many variables discussed that influence available income and how it is used. But even among groups with similar available incomes, variables of ethnicity, prestige, nutritional knowledge, and the desire for consumer goods come into play.

Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology
Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology

Author: Wallace C. Olsen

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780801426773

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The first of an eight-volume series, The Literature of the Agricultural Sciences, this book analyzes the trends in the published literature of agricultural economics and rural sociology during the past fifty years. It uses citation analysis and other bibliometric techniques to identify the primary journals, report series, and monographs of current importance to the developed industrial countries as well as those in the Third World.

Metropolitan Migrants
Metropolitan Migrants

Author: Rubén Hernández-León

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2008-09-02

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0520256743

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Challenging many common perceptions, this book is dedicated to understanding a major new phenomenon - the large number of skilled urban workers who are coming to America from Mexico's cities. Based on a ten-year study of one working-class neighbourhood in Monterrey, the book studies the forces that lead to Mexican emigration.