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)

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)

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)

The data show that over one-third of the Spanish surnamed persons marrying in California in the period 1962-1974 married non-Spanish surnamed persons, with approximately two out of five Spanish surnamed persons who were not born in Mexico marrying outside the Spanish surnamed group during 1966-1974. (Author/AM)

Existing data on illegal immigration in the U.S. is inadequate. The limited availability of macrodata on the size of the annual flows and of the accumulated stock of individuals as well as of microdata on their influence on selected labor markets has been used to forestall policy reform efforts. (Author/RDN)

The State of Texas receives more from taxes paid by undocumented persons than it costs the state to provide them with public services, such as education, health care, corrections, and welfare. However, six Texas cities together expended more to provide services to undocumented aliens than they received in taxes. (RDN)