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Book SynopsisImmigrants 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. The author 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.
Trade Review"Lopez breaks new ground in her study of the remittance landscape in all sorts of important ways. She provocatively links the rural and the urban, the north and the south, and her sympathy for her subjects is clear as she weaves into her narrative an unsparing analysis of Mexican state policy. The devastating consequences unfold, chapter by chapter, as Lopez shows how a traditional landscape is destroyed and social inequalities further embedded, further ingrained rather than remedied." (Marta Gutman, Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York)"
