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Crossing the border : research from the Mexican Migration Project / Jorge Durand and Douglas S. Massey, editors.

Contributor Durand, Jorge.

Imprint:New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2004.

Descriptionix, 345 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:What we learned from the Mexican migration project / Jorge Durand, Douglas S. Massey -- Part I. MIGRATION AND THE FAMILY: Trends in Mexican migration to the United States, 1965 to 1995 / Marcela Cerrutti, Douglas S. Massey -- Migrants' social capital and investing remittances in Mexico / Margarita Mooney -- U.S. migration, home ownership, and housing quality / Emilio A. Parrado -- The green card as a matrimonial strategy: self-interest in the choice of marital partners / Enrique Martínez Curiel -- Part II. MIGRATION AND GENDER: Women and men on the move: undocumented border crossing / Katerine M. Donato, Evelyn Patterson -- Wives left behind: the labor market behavior of women in migrant communities / María Aysa, Douglas S. Massey -- Part III. REGIONAL VARIATIONS: Tijuana's place in the Mexican migration stream: destination for internal migrants or stepping stone to the United States? / Elizabeth Fussell -- Old paradigms and new scenarios in a migratory tradition: U.S. migration from Guanajuato / Patricia Arias -- Social capital and emigration from rural and urban communities / Nadia Y. Flores, Rubén Hernández-León, Douglas S. Massey -- Cumulative causation among internal and international Mexican migrants / Estela Rivero-Fuentes -- Part IV. POLICY CONSIDERATIONS: A profile of Mexican workers in U.S. agriculture / William A. Kandel -- Return versus settlement among undocumented Mexican migrants, 1980 to 1996 / Fernando Riosmena -- The effect of U.S. border enforcement on the crossing behavior of Mexican migrants / Pia M. Orrenius -- U.S. immigration policy and the duration of undocumented trips / Belinda I. Reyes -- Appendix: The Mexican migration project / Jorge Durand, Douglas S. Massey.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.



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