Politics and the Migrant Poor in Mexico City

Politics & Social Sciences

Cornelius, Wayne A.

Social Sciences

Stanford University Press

America in the Era of Limits: Migrants, Nativists, and the Future of U.S.-Mexican Relations (Research Report Ser, No 3)

Center for Us-Mexican Studies

Mexican Studies, U.S. Mexican Relations, Border Studies, Chicano Studies, Agricultural Studies, Biological Sciences Health Sciences, Marine Sciences, Physical Sciences

International Inventory of Current Mexico-Related Research (Research Inventory Ser. : Vol 2)

Anzaldua, Ricardo

Mexico's Alternative Political Futures (Monograph Series, Vol 30)

Gentleman, Judith

Politics & Government

The Economics of Interdependence: Mexico & the U.S. (Dimensions of U.S.-Mexican Relations Series, Vol. 2

This volume provides the most recent snapshot of a vibrant, transnational Mexican community that has been the object of researchers’ attention since 1976. Based on fieldwork conducted in 2013 in Tlacuitapa, Jalisco, and in its U.S. satellite communities, the book examines both recent migration trends and the ways in which migration to the United States is shaping the health circumstances and experiences of migrants and those whom they leave behind. Building on previous research concerning the impacts of the Great Recession of 2007-09 on decisions to migrate and to settle in the United States, the researchers show how economic and social factors exert much greater influence on decisions to settle in the United States or return to Mexico than U.S. policy measures, such as border enforcement and the Obama administration’s program to suspend deportation of young undocumented migrants. Health-related issues explored in this book include access to health care on both sides of the border, chronic disease management, workplace health hazards, and migration-related factors influencing the risk of HIV transmission. These issues are hardly unique to Tlacuitapa; they broadly characterize other high-emigration communities in Mexico. What makes the most recent research done among Tlacuitapenses unique is that it is part of a sustained effort to document social, economic, and policy-related phenomena occurring in a specific migrant-sending community and its U.S. expatriate communities over nearly four decades, using a multidisciplinary, binational approach.

Return Migration, Health, and Sexuality in a Transnational Mexican Community: Migración de Retorno, Salud y Sexualidad en una Comunidad Mexicana Transnacional

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Why has Mexican migration to the United States plummeted to levels not seen since the early 1970s? Most analysts have blamed the Great Recession of 2007-2009 in the United States. But why have new departures for the United States failed to rebound to pre-Recession levels, more than six years into the recovery? Beyond the perception that jobs are hard to come by in the United States, what other factors may be influencing so many Mexicans to forego going north? Has a new calculus of staying home in Mexico taken hold in previously high-emigration communities?  To answer these and other questions, the Mexican Migration Field Research and Training Program (MMFRP) at the University of California-San Diego returned to Tunkás, a town in central Yucatán that has sent migrants to the United States since the 1970s. This volume reports results from the MMFRP’s fourth study of Tunkaseños in Yucatán and the southern California cities where most of the town’s migrants have clustered. Drawing on 558 survey interviews and 87 open-ended interviews conducted in the first quarter of 2015, the authors show how the migration behavior of Tunkaseños has changed in recent years, and they test seven hypotheses to explain the change. Among other explanations, the increased attractiveness of internal migration to Mexican cities has reduced the pool of potential migrants to the United States.  This volume also presents results from the MMFRP’s most exhaustive study to date of factors influencing educational attainment among young Tunkaseños on both sides of the border. The authors find that while Tunkasenos are completing more years of education than ever before, significant obstacles to educational advancement continue to operate. They call special attention to rising drug and alcohol use among adolescents in Tunkás, and find that having a parent absent due to migration is an important risk factor. Drawing on extensive qualitative evidence, the following chapter explores the U.S. side of the equation, focusing on risk factors for drug and alcohol use among California-based migrants from Tunkás. The authors find that pressures generated by their U.S. work life and social networks formed after arrival in the United States increase migrants’ vulnerability to substance use. The final chapter is a path-breaking analysis of how global climate change is affecting the livelihoods and migration behavior of Tunkaseños.

The New Face of Mexican Migration: A Transnational Community in Yucatán and California

Gell-Redman, Micah

Kosnac, Hillary S.

Why has Mexican migration to the United States plummeted to levels not seen since the early 1970s? Most analysts have blamed the Great Recession of 2007-2009 in the United States. But why have new departures for the United States failed to rebound to pre-Recession levels, more than six years into the recovery? Beyond the perception that jobs are hard to come by in the United States, what other factors may be influencing so many Mexicans to forego going north? Has a new calculus of staying home in Mexico taken hold in previously high-emigration communities? To answer these and other questions, the Mexican Migration Field Research and Training Program (MMFRP) at the University of California-San Diego returned to Tunkás, a town in central Yucatán that has sent migrants to the United States since the 1970s. This volume reports results from the MMFRP’s fourth study of Tunkaseños in Yucatán and the southern California cities where most of the town’s migrants have clustered. Drawing on 558 survey interviews and 87 open-ended interviews conducted in the first quarter of 2015, the authors show how the migration behavior of Tunkaseños has changed in recent years, and they test seven hypotheses to explain the change. Among other explanations, the increased attractiveness of internal migration to Mexican cities has reduced the pool of potential migrants to the United States. This volume also presents results from the MMFRP’s most exhaustive study to date of factors influencing educational attainment among young Tunkaseños on both sides of the border. The authors find that while Tunkasenos are completing more years of education than ever before, significant obstacles to educational advancement continue to operate. They call special attention to rising drug and alcohol use among adolescents in Tunkás, and find that having a parent absent due to migration is an important risk factor. Drawing on extensive qualitative evidence, the following chapter explores the U.S. side of the equation, focusing on risk factors for drug and alcohol use among California-based migrants from Tunkás. The authors find that pressures generated by their U.S. work life and social networks formed after arrival in the United States increase migrants’ vulnerability to substance use. The final chapter is a path-breaking analysis of how global climate change is affecting the livelihoods and migration behavior of Tunkaseños.

The New Face of Mexican Migration: A Transnational Community in Yucatan and California

Lewin-Fischer, Pedro

Noriega, Veronica

The Mexican Political System in Transition

A study of the loss of power of Mexico's PRI.

Mexican Politics in Transition: The Breakdown of a One-Party-Dominant Regime (Monograph Series)

Center for U. S. - Mexican Studies

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