What's Driving Mexico-U.S. Migration? A Theoretical, Empirical, and Policy Analysis

Massey, Douglas S.; Espinosa, Kristin E.

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“…Reyes (2007) finds that border enforcement was positively associated with undocumented migration suggesting that for the enforcement to be effective a certain high level is necessary. Massey and Espinosa (1997) posit that preemptive migration might explain ineffective border policy if individuals undertake migration sooner to preempt further increases in border enforcement. Gathmann (2008) finds that migrants change their route of entry when border enforcement does not increase evenly in all places.…”

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“…To evaluate the effect of the legalization component, comparison of legalized individual's behavior before and after the IRCA is common as well as comparison of legalized individuals with comparable native population (Amuedo-Dorantes et al 2007;Amuedo-Dorantes and Bansak 2011;Kossoudji and Cobb-Clark 2000). Another strategy to measure the overall effect of the IRCA is to use the change in the legalized population as proxy for the IRCA (Reyes 2004;Massey and Espinosa 1997;Baker 2015). Arguing that legalization was the most salient part of the law, Baker (2015) uses the ratio of legalized migrant population in a county to identify the effect of the IRCA on the level of crime.…”

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U.S. Immigration Reform and the Migration Dynamics of Mexican Males

Altangerel

Ours

2017

De Economist

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The 1986 US Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) was directed at tackling the problem of growing unauthorized migration through legalization of unauthorized immigrants, increasing border security and sanctioning employers who hired unauthorized immigrants. Our paper investigates how the IRCA affected the migration dynamics of male Mexican immigrants focusing on their age of onset of migration and the duration of their first trip. We find that the IRCA reduced unauthorized migration to the US while it does not seem to have had a significant effect on the return rate from the US to Mexico of undocumented male immigrants.

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U.S. Immigration Reform and the Migration Dynamics of Mexican Males

Altangerel

Ours

2017

De Economist

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“…Having said this, a number of migration scholars have appreciated the importance of non-economic factors in influencing migration decisions. Massey and Espinosa (1997), for instance, highlight that migrants are motivated to move to new markets as a result of factors beyond work, including social and personal connections. Thus, the reason skilled migrants transfer their skills abroad is also dependent on and shaped by non-institutional and non-economic factors (Kloosterman et.…”

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Skilled migrants in the Middle East: definitions, mobility and integration

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Groutsis

2012

IJBG

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This paper focuses on skilled migrants moving to and integrating in the Middle East. We provide a series of factors to help conceptualise this heterogeneous group. The paper looks at various types of skilled migration, mobility and integration as well as the challenges that individual migrants have faced. We argue that when thinking about migration and integration, it is important to appreciate multiple scales of analysis. We also highlight that although skilled migrants have confronted a number of migration and integration barriers, many have also experienced additional challenges on the basis of their identity.

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“…This time allocation is shaped by each individual's education, employment experience, and other human capital traits (Parrado, 2002). Demographic traditions in this vein include exploration of the ways in which household decision-making shapes various demographic processes such as migration (e.g., Haberfeld, Menaria, Sahoo, & Vyas, 1999;Massey & Espinosa, 1997), socioeconomic processes such as labor market participation (e.g., Duncan, Edwards, Reynolds, & Alldred, 2003;Delap, 2000;Tiefenthaler, 1999) and education (e.g., Brown & Park, 2002;Delap, 2000;Tiefenthaler, 1999;Burki & Fasih, 1998). …”

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Household strategies in the face of resource scarcity in coastal Ghana: are they associated with development priorities?

Hunter

2006

Popul Res Policy Rev

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In many developing regions, women and young girls spend several hours daily in the collection of natural resources. Still the link between these household resource strategies and stakeholder perceptions of development priorities remains unexplored. This project examines this association with survey data representative of the adult population from Ghana's Coastal Region. Although natural resource scarcity and the sustainability of resource use represent key development challenges, there are others (e.g., energy, sanitation, employment, and educational opportunities). As such, even in the face of natural resource scarcity, individuals may place greater importance on other dimensions of development, especially if household resource strategies are perceived as relatively efficient. The analytical focus here is on water and the results suggest that gender roles shape household water collection strategies, while also shaping these strategies' perceived opportunity costs. Specifically, Ghanian adults more often see drinking water provision as their primary development need when water sources are distant and/or when male household members collect water (particularly male heads). In the end, I argue that social science inquiry benefits by contextualizing social dynamics within environmental context, particularly within cultural settings in which human subsistence is intimately tied to the state of the natural environment.

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What's Driving Mexico-U.S. Migration? A Theoretical, Empirical, and Policy Analysis

Cited by 979 publications

References 30 publications

U.S. Immigration Reform and the Migration Dynamics of Mexican Males

U.S. Immigration Reform and the Migration Dynamics of Mexican Males

Skilled migrants in the Middle East: definitions, mobility and integration

Household strategies in the face of resource scarcity in coastal Ghana: are they associated with development priorities?

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