Migration Between Mexico and the United States

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxiii

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2. Population Dynamics of Mexican Migration on Both Sides of the Border

   • Claudia Masferrer, Carla Pederzini, Jeffrey S. Passel, Gretchen Livingston

   Pages 1-36

3. Mexico – U.S. Migration: Economic, Labor and Development Issues

   • Jesús Arroyo, Salvador Berumen, Philip Martin, Pia Orrenius

   Pages 37-77

4. Educating Across Borders: The Well-Being of Students from Mexican Immigrant Families in the United States and in Mexico

   • Silvia Giorguli, Bryant Jensen, Frank Bean, Susan Brown, Adam Sawyer, Víctor Zúñiga

   Pages 79-135

5. Migrant Health Vulnerability Through the Migration Process: Implications for Health Policy in Mexico and the United States

   • V. Nelly Salgado de Snyder, Fernando Riosmena, Miguel Ángel González-Block, Rebeca Wong

   Pages 137-174

6. Living in Fear and Insecurity: Growing Risks in Mexican Migration Environments

   • Néstor Rodríguez

   Pages 175-199

7. Violence and International Emigration from Mexico: Evidence at a Municipality Level

   • Liliana Meza González

   Pages 201-229

8. Mexican Social Programs, Departures and Return Migration

   • Israel Banegas, Graciela Teruel, Agustín Escobar Latapí

   Pages 231-249

This open access Regional Reader describes how Mexico - United States migration changed substantially during the first decade of the 21st Century. The book provides an in-depth analysis on the changes in the flows into and out of both countries, thus highlighting the issues arising from Mexico - US migration as well as addressing the large numbers of adults and children entering Mexico from the United States. It covers how this tidal change affects the Hispanic population of the U.S. and return migrants' reincorporation in Mexico; their jobs, access to school, health and access to health services, how fear became a dominant aspect of Mexicans’ lives in the U.S., and the role played by crime and social policy in Mexico.

• Open access
• Mexico-United States migration
• Mexican migrants in the United States and Mexico
• Return migrants from the United States to Mexico
• Mexican migrant families
• Migrant well-being
• Hispanic population of the U.S
• Migration Policy in North America
• Demographic dynamics of Mexico-U.S. migration
• Migration and employment in Mexico and the U.S.
• Migration and education in Mexico and the U.S.
• Migration and health in Mexico and the U.S.
• Migration, violence and crime in Mexico
• Migration and fear in the United States
• Social programs and migration in Mexico
• U.S.-born immigrants in Mexico
• Migration from the United States to Mexico
• Reincorporation of Mexican returnees
• Migrant integration in Mexico and the United States

• CIESAS-Occidente, Guadalajara, Mexico

  Agustín Escobar Latapí

• El Colegio de México, Mexico City, Mexico

  Claudia Masferrer

Agustín Escobar is a sociologist and anthropologist specializing in international migration, labor markets, poverty, social structure and social mobility. He has written about international migrants from Mexico for many years, emphasizing the factors that influence migration. He has been critical of the migration and development literature. 

Claudia Masferrer is a social demographer specializing in internal and international migration, reintegration of returnees, immigrant integration, demographic dynamics, inequality, and how policy mediates these processes. Her work aims to contribute to the understanding of North America as a region of emigration, immigration, transit, and return migration. She has studied return migration to Mexico and its implications for more than a decade.