Mexican Migration and the U.S. Economic Crisis

A Transnational Perspective

Author: Wayne A. Cornelius
ISBN: 9780980056051

"Based on 1,031 survey interviews and more than 500 hours of in-depth unstructured interviewing, on both sides of the border, this volume is the first fieldwork-based study of how the U.S. economic crisis that erupted in 2007 has affected flows of Mexican migrants to and from the United States. Focusing on Tunkas, a migrant-sending community in rural Yucatan that they first studied in 2006, and its satellite communities in southern California, the researchers find that it is the combination of poor job prospects in the United States with higher costs of migration (mainly, people-smugglers' fees) that has discouraged new migration in recent years, among both legal and unauthorized migrants. They also find that neither the economic crisis nor workplace raids and other forms of interior enforcement are inducing large numbers of migrants already in the United States to go home. The researchers document the strategies that have been developed by migrants and their dependents in Mexico --

Publisher: Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego
Publish Date: 2010-01-01

Subjects: Political Science / Political Economy, Political Science / World / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Latinx/Chicanx American (LCXA)), Raza Recource Centro (Location: Wall B, Shelf 2)