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1.

The Roots of Mexican Labor Migration » Read Now
by Alexander Monto. 251 pgs.

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Alexander Monto looks at how labor migration flows from Mexico to the United States are directed and structured, and what changes they bring in the sending and receiving communities. He places cyclical migration in the context of historical and economic developments in Mexico and the United States...
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Alexander Monto looks at how labor migration flows from Mexico to the United States are directed and structured, and what changes they bring in the sending and receiving communities. He places cyclical migration in the context of historical and economic developments in Mexico and the United States, and he concludes that the circulatory movement is an element in the well-established world economic system that has endured for a hundred years.
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Mexican Workers and American Dreams: Immigration, Repatriation, and California Farm Labor, 1900-1939 » Read Now
by Camille Guerin-Gonzales. 200 pgs.

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...not remain in the U.S. permanently. Mexicans coming to California after...from Mexico to the U.S. Responding to pressure from Mexican employers, the...thousands more...
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Mexican Labour Migration to the United States in the Age of Globalisation, in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies » Read Now
by Alejandro I. Canales. 21 pgs.

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...de Poblacion, 73: 221-52. Cardoso, L. (1980) Mexican Emigration to the United States, 1897-1931. Tucson: University of Arizona...From sojourners to settlers: the changing...
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Dollarization and the Mexican Labor Market, in Journal of Money, Credit & Banking » Read Now
by George J. Borjas, Eric O'N. Fisher. 55 pgs.

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...therefore, that the number of illegal...the response of emigration to changes in economic...real wages. The Mexican monetary authorities...between illegal emigration to...
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Mexican-U.S. Migration: Policies and Economic Impacts, in Challenge » Read Now
by Philip Martin. 7 pgs.

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...migrants will have to elude a beefed-up...order to enter the United States illegally. Emigration pressure and...most illegal Mexican immigrants...border areas and...
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Immigration, Citizenship, and U.S./Mexico Relations, in Bilingual Review » Read Now
by Kevin R. Johnson. 16 pgs.

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...significant undocumented Mexican labor force to participate in the U.S. economy with...U.S. citizenship to the large Mexican population of the...equal citizenship to the...
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The Special Case of Mexican Immigration, in The American Enterprise » Read Now
by Samuel Huntington. 6 pgs.

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...their national territory to the U.S. in the Mexican War in the middle of the...is effectively claiming to represent Mexicans within the U.S. as well. He acknowledges...that...
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March of Folly: U.S. Immigration Policy after NAFTA, in The American Prospect » Read Now
by Douglas S. Massey. 12 pgs.

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...preclude, emigration from Mexico...circulation between the two countries...movement--to put a U.S...fraction of the Mexican population...withholding to finance the...
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Dead in Their Tracks: Crossing America's Desert Borderlands » Read Now
by John Annerino. 212 pgs.

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In one of the hottest, loneliest spots on earth, John Annerino hooked up with four Mexican nationals determined to cross the border illegally. Their choice was simple: risk their lives crossing the desert for a poorly paid job in El Norte or stay in Mexico and watch their families starve. Annerino...
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In one of the hottest, loneliest spots on earth, John Annerino hooked up with four Mexican nationals determined to cross the border illegally. Their choice was simple: risk their lives crossing the desert for a poorly paid job in El Norte or stay in Mexico and watch their families starve. Annerino and his companions would have died in that vast, unforgiving land had they not shared the water they had and helped one another with the encouragement that seemed pointless at the time. Dead in Their Tracks is the true story of a desperate human struggle in a bleak, beautiful wilderness.
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The Battle for the Border: Notes on Autonomous Migration, Transnational Communities, and the State, in Social Justice » Read Now
by Nestor Rodriguez. 17 pgs.

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...also meet with Mexican officials on the U.S. side of the border to discuss abuses...CWA News, 1994). The Mexican union also obtained...governments commitment to investigate...
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End of an Affair? Immigration, Security and the U.S.-Mexican Relationship, in The National Interest » Read Now
by Robert S. Leiken. 11 pgs.

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...and led it to realize how...had interred the U.S.-Mexican immigration...are linked to the U.S. market...Eventually, too, Mexican energy supplies...now vital to U.S...
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Human Migration: A Study of International Movements (Chap. 21 "Mexican Migration") » Read Now
by Donald R. Taft. 590 pgs.

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...IN MODERN MIGRATION a Estimates to nearest million. 000,000 omitted...1924. Compare also Leon Dominian, The Frontiers of Language and Nationality...most important either as...
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Immigration in a Changing Economy: California's Experience (Chap. Two "The Changing Character of Recent Immigration to California") » Read Now
by Kevin F. McCarthy, Georges Vernez. 373 pgs.

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Assesses the impact immigrants have made on California's economy.
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Policy Choices: Free Trade among NAFTA Nations ("The Social Process of Mexican-U.S. Migration" begins on p. 204) » Read Now
by Karen Roberts, Mark I. Wilson. 336 pgs.

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Policy Choices: Free Trade Among NAFTA Nations is the third volume in a series created to shed light on critical public policy issues in Michigan's future. The articles in this collection are dedicated to a single policy theme -- the effect of the integration of the North American economy on Michigan.
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Confronting the Problem of Illegal Mexican Migration to the U.S., in USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education) » Read Now
by Daniel T. Griswold. 4 pgs.

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...Confronting the Problem of Illegal Mexican Migration to the U.S. by Daniel T...labor in the U.S. market. Mexicans migrate to the U.S. not simply because wages...wages."...