Migration histories from residents of a rural Michoacan town were used to construct successive migrant cohorts for the period 1940-1978. Analysis indicates that prior to 1965, migration was limited primarily to male agricultural workers. Since 1965, increased numbers of women, children, and legal U.S. residents have made up the migrant population.…

Focuses on attitudes of Mexican Americans toward issues relating to current U.S. immigration policy and the Simpson-Mazzoli Bill. Data suggest significant differences in attitudes between Mexican Americans of different generations, income and occupational levels, and regions. Attitude differences between Mexican-American leaders and random…

Results of immigrant student census data are used to describe school entry patterns and educational backgrounds of Mexican immigrant students. Interviews with recently arrived immigrant parents reveal educational and occupational expectations. Research and policy implications are discussed. (MW)

Acculturation will work in the same way for legal and illegal immigrants as it has for other ethnic groups in the past, given comparable levels of education and length of family residence in this country. The long-term impact of illegal migration will be insignificant provided it is reduced substantially in the future. (RDN)

Compares U.S. job and spatial mobility for recent returnee migrants from two Mexican areas: Rio Grande; Zacatecas, in the interior; and Nueva Rosita-Muzquiz, Coahuila, near the U.S. border. Interior migrants fit a hierarchical migrant model while border migrants fit a shuttle migrant model. (Author/LHW)

Explores processes governing the ethnic identification of second and later generations of Mexican immigrant descendants using the Latino National Political Survey. Ethnic identification arises directly from cultural continuity and lower levels of assimilation, experiences with ethnic competition, and a combination of both processes. Experiences…

Uses 1980 Public Use Microfiles to delineate four Mexican-origin immigrant status groups--post-1975 Mexican-born noncitizens, pre-1975 Mexican-born noncitizens, self-reported naturalized citizens, and native-born Mexican Americans. Argues that the pattern of sociodemographic differences reveals that the first two categories contain a substantial…

Uses within-year apprehensions data to test the economic determinants of Mexican undocumented immigration to the U.S. Data are highly seasonal; within-year border patrol apprehensions suggest that this seasonality is not solely due to changes in border patrol enforcement. (Author/LHW)

Discusses a study examining the relationship between geographic mobility, kinship ties and social status for a sample of Mexican immigrants who were interviewed upon entry to the United States and reinterviewed three years later. Attempts to determine whether and how maintenance of kinship ties influences the integration of immigrants. (Author/MK)

Legal migrants from rural Michoacan, Mexico, tended to migrate in larger groups than illegal migrants and were more likely to be accompanied by wives and children. Legal migrants also spent less time away from home each year and demonstrated greater geographic mobility while in the United States than illegals. (Author/GC)

Investigated whether Mexican foreign-born immigrants who immigrated to the United States for economic reasons naturalized less often than Cubans who immigrated for political reasons. Data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Latino Sample, indicated that while more Mexicans plan to apply or have applied for naturalization, proportionately more…

Aspects of Mexico's economic and technological structures are examined, features of the modernization process are dealt with, an analysis is made of one component of the Mexican migratory flow into the United States, and migratory flow, seen in the context of the system of "peripheral" and "central" economics, is discussed. (Author/EB)

Absorption, enforcement, and research development are described as three basic elements of a plan which would supplement President Carter's immigration proposals and enable the Immigration and Naturalization Service to move toward a substantial reduction in the size of the undocumented population in the United States. (Author/EB)

This study focuses on recent Mexican female migrants to the city of Houston. It determines the strategies used by these migrants to cope with the stress of migration. (Author/AM)

Describes research on the integration of Mexican-American children into the U.S. political system. Observes that from newcomers through the second generation, Mexican-American children become increasingly identified with and immersed in American political orientations, but that the third generation demonstrates a notable decline in political…