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Mexican immigration to the United States

Manuel Gamio
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The article was published on 1969-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 218 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Immigration.

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Participatory Survey Research: Integrating Community Collaboration and Quantitative Methods for the Study of Gender and HIV Risks Among Hispanic Migrants

TL;DR: In this paper, a research strategy for studying difficult-to-reach migrant populations that combines community collaboration, targeted random sampling, and parallel sampling in sending and receiving areas is presented, and applied to the study of gender, migration, and HIV risks among Hispanic migrants in Durham, North Carolina.
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Circular, invisible, and ambiguous migrants: components of difference in estimates of the number of unauthorized Mexican migrants in the United States.

TL;DR: This research estimates that about 2.54 million total unauthorized Mexicans resided in the United States in 1996, and compares this figure with an estimate released by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service during the 1990s, finding that the two estimates involve different assumptions about circular, invisible, and ambiguous migrants.
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Discovering Diverse Mechanisms of Migration: The Mexico–US Stream 1970–2000

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ cluster analysis to identify four types of migrants with distinct configurations of characteristics, each of which corresponds to a specific theoretical account and becomes prevalent in a specific period depending on economic, social, and political conditions in Mexico and the US.
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Remitting subjects: migrants, money and states

TL;DR: The authors examined how academic studies, public discourse, and state accounting practices simultaneously produce and reveal the nature of the remittances from the United States to El Salvador, and shed light on new configurations through which money, states and migrant citizens are linked.
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The Effect of Visas on Migration Processes

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the short and long-term effects of travel visa policy regimes on bilateral immigration and emigration dynamics, and find that travel visa policies significantly decrease inflows, but this effect is undermined by decreasing outflows of the same migrant groups.
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