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Occupational Channels for Mexican Migration: New Destination Formation in a Binational Context
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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
Immigrant Mexicans and the U. S. Work Force
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Fogel, Walter A. – Monthly Labor Review, 1975
The author discusses the significance of immigrant Mexican labor on the United States labor market. (Adapted from a 1974 Industrial Relations Research Association conference paper.) (EA)
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Geographic Regions, Immigrants, Labor Force
Immigration to the United States from Latin America: Past and Present. The Latin American Project: Volume 1, No. 4.
League of United Latin American Citizens, Washington, DC. – 1986
Immigration legislation in the United States is aimed primarily at Mexican migrants, who account for over half of all undocumented immigrants in the United States. Citizens of Central American and Caribbean countries contribute another 20%. The first section of this booklet traces the development of United States immigration legislation from the…
Descriptors: Braceros, Census Figures, Employment Patterns, Federal Legislation
The Uncertain Connection: Free Trade and Rural Mexican Migration to the United States.
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Cornelius, Wayne A.; Martin, Philip L. – International Migration Review, 1993
Argues that it is easy to overestimate the additional emigration from rural Mexico that could occur as a result of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) related economic restructuring in Mexico. Four major reasons why Mexican emigration may not increase dramatically are suggested. Phase-in recommendations related to implementation are…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Cooperation, Demography, Economic Change
Migrant Farmworkers and Their Attachment to Farmwork.
Whitener, Leslie A. – 1982
Using data obtained in December 1979 from the biennial Hired Farm Working Force Survey supplement of the Current Population Survey, case weights were applied to obtain a sample of 149 migrant farmworker case studies (selected from an estimated 217,000 migrant farmworkers) to ascertain the agricultural attachment level of migrant farmworkers in…
Descriptors: Age, Agricultural Laborers, Blacks, Census Figures
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy.
Ehrenreich, Barbara, Ed.; Hochschild, Arlie Russell, Ed. – 2003
This volume explores the unexplored consequences of globalization on the lives of women worldwide, as each year millions leave their third world countries to work in the homes, nurseries, and brothels of first world countries. This mass migration results in a transfer of labor associated with women's traditional roles that creates a "care…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregivers, Child Care, Demand Occupations
Handicapped Migrant Farm Workers. Characteristics of Disabled Migratory and Seasonal Agricultural Workers and Their Families, Impact of the State/Federal Vocational Rehabilitation Program, and Strategies for Expanding Services.
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Cortes, Michael E. – 1974
After surveying the vocational rehabilitation (VR) needs of disabled migratory and seasonal farmworkers in the U.S., a national plan to meet those needs was developed, in cooperation with designated state agencies. A random cluster sample of farmworkers was interviewed to determine service needs. Additional planning data were gathered by…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Agricultural Laborers, Attitudes, Blacks