Abstract

MARTINEZ SILVA, Eleocadio. How the Members of Qualified Mexican Working Class Face the Labor Insertion in International Contexts?. Desacatos [online]. 2018, n.56, pp.124-139. ISSN 2448-5144.

We analyze how the illegal immigrant Mexican workers contribute to shape the course of their working life in international labor contexts. The empirical work is with qualified steel workers from Altos Hornos de México, who emigrate illegally to the United States in response to the dismissal caused by the restructuring of steel industry in the nineties, who managed to find and stay in the highly qualified labor market. The analytical argument refers that illegal immigration is a normative framework that configures career trajectories but inscribed in personal histories and institutional norms, objects of appropriation and interpretation by the actors of immigration drama. The entrance to the US labor market of former steel workers is a complex process of claims, skills and opportunities that resulted in the continuation of the professional qualification.

Keywords : immigration; industrial restructuring; working class; labor market; Mexico-USA; Monclova; Mexico.

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