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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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Inside the Sending State: The Politics of Mexican Emigration Control

TL;DR: A neopluralist approach to policy development and implementation shows that the failure of emigration control and the current abandonment of serious emigration restrictions are explained by a combination of external constraints imposed by a highly asymmetrical interdependence with the United States, and internal constraints, imposed by actors within the balkanized Mexican state who recurrently undermined federal emigration policy through contradictory local practices as discussed by the authors.
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Hispanic Americans and Educational Policy: Limits to Equal Access

TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between Hispanic representation on school boards and public policy outputs that affect Hispanic students using a data set of 35 large urban school districts and found that Hispanic teachers have a major impact on the educational environment of the Hispanic student.
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Do Rainfall Deficits Predict U.S.-Bound Migration from Rural Mexico? Evidence from the Mexican Census

TL;DR: A decrease in precipitation is significantly associated with U.S.-bound migration, but only for dry Mexican states, suggesting that programs and policies aimed at reducing Mexico-U.S. migration should seek to diminish the climate/weather vulnerability of rural Mexican households, for example by supporting sustainable irrigation systems and subsidizing drought-resistant crops.
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Sources of Mexico's Migration Stream: Rural, Urban, and Border Migrants to the United States

TL;DR: The authors identify three distinct sources of Mexico-U.S. migration flow: the oldest stream from rural communities in central western Mexico, an incipient stream from interior urban areas, and a small but steady stream from Tijuana, a northern border city.
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