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Mexican Labor Migrants and U.S. Immigration Policies : From Sojourner to Emigrant?.

Kaufmann studies the migration behavior of Mexican labor migrants to the U.S. He develops the concept of migration intensity, defined as the degree to which a migrant shifts his attachment, association and engagement from the place of origin to the migration destination. Migration intensity is as im...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kaufmann, Florian K.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2011.
Colección:New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: U.S. Immigration Policy: Attracting Permanent, Undocumented Mass Migration?; Chapter 2: Social Network Assistance in Mexico
  • U.S. Migration; Chapter 3: Emigrant or Sojourner? Migration Intensity and Its Determinants; Chapter 4: A Comprehensive Model of International Migration Behavior; Chapter 5: The Impact of U.S. Border Enforcement; Chapter 6: Mutually Beneficial Immigration Policies: A Utopia?; Appendix A: Data Appendix; Appendix B: Mathematical Appendix; Appendix C: Additional Tables and Figures.
  • Appendix D: Additional Specifications and Robustness TestsReferences; Index.