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* Offers a fundamental account of the evolution of migration in
Latin America * Broad study of the subject and interdisciplinary in
nature (relevant to scholars of history, sociology, political
science, anthropology, and geography) * Covers a period of 150
years and brings the subject up to the present day * Distinct
transnational and transatlantic analysis on the migration
experience and dynamics anchored in, to, and from Latin America
Since Mexico-U.S. migration represents the largest sustained
migratory flow between two nations worldwide, much of the
theoretical and empirical work on migration has focused on this
single case. In the last few decades, however, migration has
emerged as a critical issue across all nations in Latin America and
the Caribbean, with the region seeing its position changed from a
net migrant-receiving region to one that now stands as one of the
foremost sending areas of the world. In this latest volume of the
ANNALS, leading migration scholars seek to redress the imbalance
offered when only studying a single case with the first systematic
assessment of Latin American migration patterns using ongoing
research on the Mexican case as a basis for comparison. Each
chapter examines specific propositions or findings derived from the
Mexican case that have not yet been tested for other Latin American
or Caribbean nations. Using a common framework of data, methods,
and theories, they offer a new perspective on the causes and
consequences of migration in the Western Hemisphere. The authors
examine four fundamental questions: What are the individual
determinants and basic processes of movement? How do we identify
and understand the larger structural causes that ultimately
underlie individual and household decisions to move? What are the
consequences of migration for individuals, households, and
communities in sending and receiving nations? And what effect do
governmental attempts to control the quantity and quality of
immigrants have on the actual size and composition of the resulting
international flows? Using comparable data from the Mexican
Migration Project (MMP) and the Latin American Migration Project
(LAMP), the most comprehensive and reliable source of data on
immigration from Latin America and the Caribbean, the volume offers
valuable insight into 118 Mexican communities and 35 communities
from seven other nations of Latin America and the Caribbean,
including Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Peru, Paraguay, Argentina, Haiti,
and the Dominican Republic, as well as Puerto Rico. In this volume,
comparative research is shown to be critical to building an
accurate theoretical and substantive understanding of migration.
Through the authors' findings, we are shown what is possible when
researchers are able to draw on a common source of comparable data
to study migratory decision-making and outcomes across diverse
origin countries. Specific outcomes help the authors to identify:
common characteristics of pioneer migrants; gender effects on
migration; the role that political shocks and violence can play in
promoting emigration during times of political and economic
transition; differences in the education profiles of emigrants from
Latin American countries that lie at different ends of the migrant
selectivity continuum; the important influence of remittances sent
home by migrants and the migrants' occupational prospects once they
return home; and the effect of U.S. immigration policies on the
behavior and characteristics of immigrants. This comparative
approach to the study of migration represents a unique and
innovative contribution to scholarship on international migration-a
topic of considerable interest in the twenty-first century.
Political scientists, sociologists, and policy-makers will find
much value in these compelling and timely readings. For all social
scientists who are interested in ethnic studies and migration, this
volume provides inspiration for future research.
"Return to Aztlan" analyzes the social process of international
migration through an intensive study of four carefully chosen
Mexican communities. The book combines historical, anthropological,
and survey data to construct a vivid and comprehensive picture of
the social dynamics of contemporary Mexican migration to the United
States.
Migration between Mexico and the United States is part of a
historical process of increasing North American integration. This
process acquired new momentum with the passage of the North
American Free Trade Agreement in 1994, which lowered barriers to
the movement of goods, capital, services, and information. But
rather than include labor in this new regime, the United States
continues to resist the integration of the labor markets of the two
countries. Instead of easing restrictions on Mexican labor, the
United States has militarized its border and adopted restrictive
new policies of immigrant disenfranchisement. Beyond Smoke and
Mirrors examines the devastating impact of these immigration
policies on the social and economic fabric of the Mexico and the
United States, and calls for a sweeping reform of the current
system. Beyond Smoke and Mirrors shows how U.S. immigration
policies enacted between 1986 1996 largely for symbolic domestic
political purposes harm the interests of Mexico, the United States,
and the people who migrate between them. The costs have been high.
The book documents how the massive expansion of border enforcement
has wasted billions of dollars and hundreds of lives, yet has not
deterred increasing numbers of undocumented immigrants from heading
north. The authors also show how the new policies unleashed a host
of unintended consequences: a shift away from seasonal, circular
migration toward permanent settlement; the creation of a black
market for Mexican labor; the transformation of Mexican immigration
from a regional phenomenon into a broad social movement touching
every region of the country; and even the lowering of wages for
legal U.S. residents. What had been a relatively open and benign
labor process before 1986 was transformed into an exploitative
underground system of labor coercion, one that lowered wages and
working conditions of undocumented migrants, legal immigrants, and
American citizens alike. Beyond Smoke and Mirrors offers specific
proposals for repairing the damage. Rather than denying the reality
of labor migration, the authors recommend regularizing it and
working to manage it so as to promote economic development in
Mexico, minimize costs and disruptions for the United States, and
maximize benefits for all concerned. This book provides an
essential "user's manual" for readers seeking a historical,
theoretical, and substantive understanding of how U.S. policy on
Mexican immigration evolved to its current dysfunctional state, as
well as how it might be fixed."
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