Rubén Hernández-León
Biographic Data
| ID | 108378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rubén Hernández-León |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rubén |
| FAMILY NAME | Hernández-León |
| SIGNATURE | HERNÁNDEZ-LEÓN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-3026-0730 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 143 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Geography of the H-2 Visa Temporary Migrant Labor Program in Mexico and the United States
This article examines the geography of H-2 visas, a temporary migrant labor program that recruits mainly Mexican workers to the United States. The analysis draws on the EMIF Norte survey and labor certification data from the U.S. Department of Labor to map the origins and destinations of H-2 temporary migrant workers. Findings indicate that, despite significant changes in the modality of cross-border migration, in Mexico, H-2 recruitment occurs i…
The end of Mexico–US migration as we knew it – or back to the future
Over the last decade, scholars have declared the collapse of the Mexico–US system of undocumented migration. The H2 visa programme, a regime of managed sojourning is replacing the system of unauthorized cross-border mobility. In fiscal year 2023, the US government issued nearly 370,000 H2 temporary work visas to Mexicans. This temporary migrant labour programme is also bringing back circulation, temporary legal stays, and mostly male cross-border…
The work that brokers do
This article analyses the skills and competence acquisition of migration entrepreneurs in the H-2 visa programme, a U.S. temporary worker scheme. This programme, which nowadays largely recruits Mexicans, is managed by a migration industry of labour contracting agencies, recruiters, document processors, and transporters. This article focuses on recruiters, in charge of selecting workers, and document processors, responsible for completing visa app…
An imperfect realignment
Over the past 15 years, hundreds of thousands of children of immigrants and their families have moved from the United States to Mexico pushed by different legal and economic expulsion factors. Using evidence from a multi-sited, twenty year-long study of Mexican migration to Georgia, we analyze the varied educational, linguistic, employment and family reunification experiences of children of immigrants in two communities of origin in central and n…
How didson jarochobecome a music for the immigrant rights movement
Chicana/o activists and artists in Greater Los Angeles have turned son jarocho, a traditional music genre from southeastern Mexico, into an organizing resource and a means to express the plight of immigrants. Building on a movement that started in Mexico to reestablish the communal celebration of the fandango as the centre of the son jarocho tradition, these Chicana/o activists have reinterpreted fandangos as the enactment of community. They have…
Making Los Angeles Home
Moving to the ‘Homeland’
A growing number of minors have become part of the return migratory flow from the United States to Mexico. Based on a longitudinal study started in 2012, this article uses life-history narratives to analyze the return experiences of three children who arrived in the state of Morelos, Mexico, between 2010 and 2012. The findings presented here focus on a specific segment of the children’s migratory journey: leaving the United States, crossing the b…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Introducción al número especial
Gender, Bilingualism, and the Early Occupational Careers of Second-Generation Mexicans in the South
Following two decades of Mexican migration to the southern United States, the second generation is entering the labor market. We analyze the early occupational careers of fifty-eight second-generation young adults in Dalton, Georgia, a global carpet-manufacturing center. We find intergenerational occupational mobility, with children of Mexican immigrants deploying human-capital skills to access better jobs than their parents. However, the Mexican…
L'industrie de la migration
Entre le Mexique et les États-Unis, le transport des migrants est devenu une véritable industrie. Des compagnies d’autocars ayant pignon sur rue disputent ce juteux marché à de multiples acteurs informels équipés de camionnettes qui sillonnent les régions frontalières. Suivant qu’ils aient ou non des papiers, les migrants font appel à l’un ou l’autre de ces modes de transport. Monterrey, Houston, Tijuana ou San Diego constituent les plaques tourn…
Metropolitan Migrants
Challenging many common perceptions, this is the first book fully dedicated to understanding a major new phenomenon—the large numbers of skilled urban workers who are now coming across the border from Mexico's cities. Based on a ten-year, on-the-ground study of one working-class neighborhood in Monterrey, Mexico's industrial powerhouse and third-largest city, Metropolitan Migrants explores the ways in which Mexico's economic restructuring and the…
El nuevo mapa de la migración mexicana en Estados Unidos
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Andean Diaspora
Restructuring at the Source
This article deals with a largely overlooked consequence of Mexico's process of economic restructuring in the past 2 decades: the incorporation of the country's skilled industrial workers into U.S.-bound migratory flow. In Mexico, restructuring has transformed workplaces and undermined employment stability and wage and benefits systems that used to keep industrial workers from migrating to the United States. By studying a working-class neighborho…
Death at the Border
Debates about United States border control policies have generally ignored the human costs of undocumented migration. We focus attention on these costs by estimating the number, causes and location of migrant deaths at the southwest border of the United States between 1993 and 1997. We document more than 1,600 possible migrant fatalities along the border in this period. More than 1,000 of these deaths were reported by United States data sources, …
Death at the Border
Debates about United States border control policies have generally ignored the human costs of undocumented migration. We focus attention on these costs by estimating the number, causes and location of migrant deaths at the southwest border of the United States between 1993 and 1997.... Deaths from hyperthermia, hypothermia and dehydration increased sharply from 1993 to 1997 as intensified border enforcement redirected undocumented migration flows…
Shorter Reviews
US Congress, Office of Technology Assessment The technological reshaping of metropolitan America Vieillard‐Baron, Hervé Les banlieues françaises: ou le ghetto impossible and Stewart, Murray and Marilyn Taylor Empowerment and estate regeneration: a critical review Schneider, Robert A. The ceremonial city: Toulouse observed, 1738‐1780 Gardezi, Hassan N. The political economy of international labour migration
Death at the Border
Debates about United States border control policies have generally ignored the human costs of undocumented migration. We focus attention on these costs by estimating the number, causes and location of migrant deaths at the southwest border of the United States between 1993 and 1997. We document more than 1,600 possible migrant fatalities along the border in this period. More than 1,000 of these deaths were reported by United States data sources, …
Death at the Border
Debates about United States border control policies have generally ignored the human costs of undocumented migration. We focus attention on these costs by estimating the number, causes and location of migrant deaths at the southwest border of the United States between 1993 and 1997.... Deaths from hyperthermia, hypothermia and dehydration increased sharply from 1993 to 1997 as intensified border enforcement redirected undocumented migration flows…
The work that brokers do
This article analyses the skills and competence acquisition of migration entrepreneurs in the H-2 visa programme, a U.S. temporary worker scheme. This programme, which nowadays largely recruits Mexicans, is managed by a migration industry of labour contracting agencies, recruiters, document processors, and transporters. This article focuses on recruiters, in charge of selecting workers, and document processors, responsible for completing visa app…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Restructuring at the Source
This article deals with a largely overlooked consequence of Mexico's process of economic restructuring in the past 2 decades: the incorporation of the country's skilled industrial workers into U.S.-bound migratory flow. In Mexico, restructuring has transformed workplaces and undermined employment stability and wage and benefits systems that used to keep industrial workers from migrating to the United States. By studying a working-class neighborho…
An imperfect realignment
Over the past 15 years, hundreds of thousands of children of immigrants and their families have moved from the United States to Mexico pushed by different legal and economic expulsion factors. Using evidence from a multi-sited, twenty year-long study of Mexican migration to Georgia, we analyze the varied educational, linguistic, employment and family reunification experiences of children of immigrants in two communities of origin in central and n…
Moving to the ‘Homeland’
A growing number of minors have become part of the return migratory flow from the United States to Mexico. Based on a longitudinal study started in 2012, this article uses life-history narratives to analyze the return experiences of three children who arrived in the state of Morelos, Mexico, between 2010 and 2012. The findings presented here focus on a specific segment of the children’s migratory journey: leaving the United States, crossing the b…
L'industrie de la migration
Entre le Mexique et les États-Unis, le transport des migrants est devenu une véritable industrie. Des compagnies d’autocars ayant pignon sur rue disputent ce juteux marché à de multiples acteurs informels équipés de camionnettes qui sillonnent les régions frontalières. Suivant qu’ils aient ou non des papiers, les migrants font appel à l’un ou l’autre de ces modes de transport. Monterrey, Houston, Tijuana ou San Diego constituent les plaques tourn…
How didson jarochobecome a music for the immigrant rights movement
Chicana/o activists and artists in Greater Los Angeles have turned son jarocho, a traditional music genre from southeastern Mexico, into an organizing resource and a means to express the plight of immigrants. Building on a movement that started in Mexico to reestablish the communal celebration of the fandango as the centre of the son jarocho tradition, these Chicana/o activists have reinterpreted fandangos as the enactment of community. They have…
The end of Mexico–US migration as we knew it – or back to the future
Over the last decade, scholars have declared the collapse of the Mexico–US system of undocumented migration. The H2 visa programme, a regime of managed sojourning is replacing the system of unauthorized cross-border mobility. In fiscal year 2023, the US government issued nearly 370,000 H2 temporary work visas to Mexicans. This temporary migrant labour programme is also bringing back circulation, temporary legal stays, and mostly male cross-border…
Shorter Reviews
US Congress, Office of Technology Assessment The technological reshaping of metropolitan America Vieillard‐Baron, Hervé Les banlieues françaises: ou le ghetto impossible and Stewart, Murray and Marilyn Taylor Empowerment and estate regeneration: a critical review Schneider, Robert A. The ceremonial city: Toulouse observed, 1738‐1780 Gardezi, Hassan N. The political economy of international labour migration
Death at the Border
Debates about United States border control policies have generally ignored the human costs of undocumented migration. We focus attention on these costs by estimating the number, causes and location of migrant deaths at the southwest border of the United States between 1993 and 1997. We document more than 1,600 possible migrant fatalities along the border in this period. More than 1,000 of these deaths were reported by United States data sources, …
Death at the Border
Debates about United States border control policies have generally ignored the human costs of undocumented migration. We focus attention on these costs by estimating the number, causes and location of migrant deaths at the southwest border of the United States between 1993 and 1997.... Deaths from hyperthermia, hypothermia and dehydration increased sharply from 1993 to 1997 as intensified border enforcement redirected undocumented migration flows…
Restructuring at the Source
This article deals with a largely overlooked consequence of Mexico's process of economic restructuring in the past 2 decades: the incorporation of the country's skilled industrial workers into U.S.-bound migratory flow. In Mexico, restructuring has transformed workplaces and undermined employment stability and wage and benefits systems that used to keep industrial workers from migrating to the United States. By studying a working-class neighborho…
Andean Diaspora
El nuevo mapa de la migración mexicana en Estados Unidos
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Metropolitan Migrants
Challenging many common perceptions, this is the first book fully dedicated to understanding a major new phenomenon—the large numbers of skilled urban workers who are now coming across the border from Mexico's cities. Based on a ten-year, on-the-ground study of one working-class neighborhood in Monterrey, Mexico's industrial powerhouse and third-largest city, Metropolitan Migrants explores the ways in which Mexico's economic restructuring and the…
L'industrie de la migration
Entre le Mexique et les États-Unis, le transport des migrants est devenu une véritable industrie. Des compagnies d’autocars ayant pignon sur rue disputent ce juteux marché à de multiples acteurs informels équipés de camionnettes qui sillonnent les régions frontalières. Suivant qu’ils aient ou non des papiers, les migrants font appel à l’un ou l’autre de ces modes de transport. Monterrey, Houston, Tijuana ou San Diego constituent les plaques tourn…
Gender, Bilingualism, and the Early Occupational Careers of Second-Generation Mexicans in the South
Following two decades of Mexican migration to the southern United States, the second generation is entering the labor market. We analyze the early occupational careers of fifty-eight second-generation young adults in Dalton, Georgia, a global carpet-manufacturing center. We find intergenerational occupational mobility, with children of Mexican immigrants deploying human-capital skills to access better jobs than their parents. However, the Mexican…
Moving to the ‘Homeland’
A growing number of minors have become part of the return migratory flow from the United States to Mexico. Based on a longitudinal study started in 2012, this article uses life-history narratives to analyze the return experiences of three children who arrived in the state of Morelos, Mexico, between 2010 and 2012. The findings presented here focus on a specific segment of the children’s migratory journey: leaving the United States, crossing the b…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Introducción al número especial
Making Los Angeles Home
How didson jarochobecome a music for the immigrant rights movement
Chicana/o activists and artists in Greater Los Angeles have turned son jarocho, a traditional music genre from southeastern Mexico, into an organizing resource and a means to express the plight of immigrants. Building on a movement that started in Mexico to reestablish the communal celebration of the fandango as the centre of the son jarocho tradition, these Chicana/o activists have reinterpreted fandangos as the enactment of community. They have…
An imperfect realignment
Over the past 15 years, hundreds of thousands of children of immigrants and their families have moved from the United States to Mexico pushed by different legal and economic expulsion factors. Using evidence from a multi-sited, twenty year-long study of Mexican migration to Georgia, we analyze the varied educational, linguistic, employment and family reunification experiences of children of immigrants in two communities of origin in central and n…
The work that brokers do
This article analyses the skills and competence acquisition of migration entrepreneurs in the H-2 visa programme, a U.S. temporary worker scheme. This programme, which nowadays largely recruits Mexicans, is managed by a migration industry of labour contracting agencies, recruiters, document processors, and transporters. This article focuses on recruiters, in charge of selecting workers, and document processors, responsible for completing visa app…
The end of Mexico–US migration as we knew it – or back to the future
Over the last decade, scholars have declared the collapse of the Mexico–US system of undocumented migration. The H2 visa programme, a regime of managed sojourning is replacing the system of unauthorized cross-border mobility. In fiscal year 2023, the US government issued nearly 370,000 H2 temporary work visas to Mexicans. This temporary migrant labour programme is also bringing back circulation, temporary legal stays, and mostly male cross-border…
The Geography of the H-2 Visa Temporary Migrant Labor Program in Mexico and the United States
This article examines the geography of H-2 visas, a temporary migrant labor program that recruits mainly Mexican workers to the United States. The analysis draws on the EMIF Norte survey and labor certification data from the U.S. Department of Labor to map the origins and destinations of H-2 temporary migrant workers. Findings indicate that, despite significant changes in the modality of cross-border migration, in Mexico, H-2 recruitment occurs i…
Political science (14 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Immigration (6 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Humanities (5 works)