Neoliberalism, Transnationalization and Rural Poverty: A Case Study of Michoacán, Mexico

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1 Introduction: Structural Adjustment, Neoliberalism and the Mexican Countryside
	Into the Nineties
	Social and Political Dimensions of Economic Policy: A Broader View
	Social and Political Dimensions of Environmental Crisis
	From the Local to the Global
	Agricultural Crisis, 1982-1990
	From Economy to Politics and Society and Back Again
2 On Audacity and Social Polarization: An Assessment of Rural Policy Under Salinas
	Campesinistas and Technocrats
	From Structural Adjustment to Procampo
	The Crisis Continues
	The Death of the Peasantry?
	The Fate of Capitalist Enterprise Under Salinas
3 Social Life and the Practices of Power: The Limits of Neocardenismo and the Limits of the PRI
	Toward a More Skeptical View of Salinista Politics
	Political Cultures in Regional and National Space
	Hegemony in Regional Space
	Wealth, Power and the Realism of the Popular Classes
	The Political Value of the Inevitability of Violence
	The PRD and the Social and Political Roots of Disillusion
4 The Transnationalization of Regional Societies: Capital, Class and International Migration
	The Political Economy of Transnational Class Relations
	Economic Factors in Differential Patterns of U.S. Migration
	Variation in the Social Organization of Migration
	Rediagnosing the Crisis
5 A Rush Through the Closing Door? The Impact of Simpson-Rodino on Two Rural Communities
	Cerrito Cotijaran: A Community of Poor Relations
	International Migration from Cerrito Cotijaran
	The Formal Provisions of the Simpson-Rodino Act
	The Cotijaran Response to Simpson-Rodino
	Thwarting the Legislators
	Guaracha: A New Wave of Emigration?
6 The Family United and Divided: Migration, Domestic Life and Gender Relations
	Marriage Breakdown and Multiple Liaisons
	International Migration and the Parallel Family
	Marriage in the North and Migrant Identity
	The Family That Stays Together
	The Social Causes and Impact of Female Migration
	A Broader Crisis of Patriarchy?
7 American Dreams and Nightmares: The Fractured Social Worlds of an Empire in Decadence
	Crisis in California
	Labor Market Development and Ethnic Segmentation
	Constructing \"the Underclass,\"
	The State, the Taxpayer and Immiseration
	Nativism, Ethnicization and the Links Between Hegemonic and Subaltern Ideologies
8 Neoliberalism and Transnationalization: Assessing the Contradictions
	Transnationalism as Resistance and Accommodation
	Class, Politics and the Decline of Community
	Why the Mexican is More Cabrón Than the Gringo
	Rural Reform, Political Closure and the Future of the Left
Bibliography
Index
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