Crossing The Border

by Durand, Jorge

• ISBN13: 9780871542885
• ISBN10: 0871542889
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Preface	ix
Chapter 1 What We Learned from the Mexican Migration Project	1	(16)
Jorge Durand and Douglas S. Massey
PART I MIGRATION AND THE FAMILY
Chapter 2 Trends in Mexican Migration to the United States, 1965 to 1995	17	(28)
Marcela Cerrutti and Douglas S. Massey
Chapter 3 Migrants' Social Capital and Investing Remittances in Mexico	45	(18)
Margarita Mooney
Chapter 4 U.S. Migration, Home Ownership, and Housing Quality	63	(23)
Emilio A. Parrado
Chapter 5 The Green Card as a Matrimonial Strategy: Self-Interest in the Choice of Marital Partners	86	(25)
Enrique Martinez Curiel
PART II MIGRATION AND GENDER
Chapter 6 Women and Men on the Move: Undocumented Border Crossing	111	(20)
Katharine M. Donato and Evelyn Patterson
Chapter 7 Wives Left Behind: The Labor Market Behavior of Women in Migrant Communities	131	(16)
Maria Aysa and Douglas S. Massey
PART III REGIONAL VARIATIONS
Chapter 8 Tijuana's Place in the Mexican Migration Stream: Destination for Internal Migrants or Stepping Stone to the United States?	147	(24)
Elizabeth Fussell
Chapter 9 Old Paradigms and New Scenarios in a Migratory Tradition: U.S. Migration from Guanajuato	171	(13)
Patricia Arias
Chapter 10 Social Capital and Emigration from Rural and Urban Communities	184	(17)
Nadia Y. Flores, Rubén Hernández-León, and Douglas S. Massey
Chapter 11 Cumulative Causation Among Internal and International Mexican Migrants	201	(34)
Estela Rivero-Fuentes
PART IV POLICY CONSIDERATIONS
Chapter 12 A Profile of Mexican Workers in U.S. Agriculture	235	(30)
William A. Kandel
Chapter 13 Return Versus Settlement Among Undocumented Mexican Migrants, 1980 to 1996	265	(16)
Fernando Riosmena
Chapter 14 The Effect of U.S. Border Enforcement on the Crossing Behavior of Mexican Migrants	281	(18)
Pia M. Orrenius
Chapter 15 U.S. Immigration Policy and the Duration of Undocumented Trips	299	(22)
Belinda I. Reyes
Chapter 16 Appendix: The Mexican Migration Project	321	(16)
Jorge Durand and Douglas S. Massey
Index	337