Monterrey, Mexico’s second largest metropolitan area, has long been a magnet for internal migration due to its economic prowess, but the city has also been intimately connected to cross-border flows. The city’s relative proximity to Texas turned Monterrey into a hub for processing Mexican guest workers, first during the Bracero Program and today through H-2 visas. As home to some of the largest public and private universities in northern Mexico, Monterrey is also an exporter of human capital migrants to the United States. This presentation by University of California professor Rubén Hernández-León, moderated by John Tutino, will discuss how the economic crises of the 1980s and 1990s saw the dislocation of regiomontano industrial workers, many of whom transferred skills to the manufacturing clusters of Houston and Chicago.
This is the fourth event in the Crossing Borders: Leaving Home, Making New Lives, Sustaining Communities series, which offers presentations by and conversations with leading analysts of the origins, processes, and outcomes of migrations between Mexico and the United States as they accelerated during the twentieth century and define key challenges of our times.
This event series is hosted by the Georgetown College Americas Forum and co-sponsored by the Georgetown Americas Institute.
This event will be recorded and a captioned video will be posted after the event date.
Accommodation requests related to a disability should be made by February 25 to Marcella Hardin. A good faith effort will be made to fulfill requests made after February 25.
