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Broxner, Colette I. Despagne – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
The Mexican Nation State has been created upon the Doctrine of Mestizaje which includes one single language, Spanish, and one single identity, the mestizo. This doctrine hides social practices of discrimination (Gómez Izquierdo, 2008). Although multiculturalism in Mexico recognizes diversity and difference, it still perceives them as problems to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Adjustment, Children, Migration Patterns
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Tucker, Christine M.; Torres-Pereda, Pilar; Minnis, Alexandra M.; Bautista-Arredondo, Sergio A. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2013
We explored migration decisions using in-depth, semistructured interviews with male and female youth ages 14 to 24 (n = 47) from two Mexican communities, one with high and one with low U.S. migration density. Half were return migrants and half were nonmigrants with relatives in the United States. Migrant and nonmigrant youth expressed different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mexicans, Migration Patterns, Semi Structured Interviews
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Sanderson, Matthew; Painter, Matthew, II – Rural Sociology, 2011
In the 1990s, Mexican immigration dispersed spatially, leading to the emergence of many "new destinations," in nonmetropolitan areas of the United States. Previous studies constrain the scope of the analysis to the United States, limiting our understanding of how new destinations are formed. We place new destination formation into a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Patterns, Supply and Demand, Multivariate Analysis
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Dreby, Joanna – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2007
Today, many families find that they are unable to fulfill the goal of maintaining a household by living together under the same roof. Some members migrate internationally. This article addresses the consequences of a transnational lifestyle for children who are left behind by migrant parents. Using ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with a…
Descriptors: Mexicans, Migration Patterns, Socioeconomic Status, Migrant Children
Rendall, Michael S.; Torr, Berna M. – RAND Corporation, 2007
Second-generation immigrants are typically analyzed under the assumption that, having been born in the United States, they grew up in the United States. We challenge this assumption by investigating the prevalence and patterns of second-generation Mexican-American children's migration to and return from Mexico during childhood, and consider the…
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, Children, Foreign Countries, Immigrants