Migration and remittances from Mexico : trends, impacts, and new challenges

Cuecuecha, Alfredo. (Added Author). Pederzini, Carla. (Added Author).

Summary: "Migration and Remittances from Mexico: Trends, Impacts, and New Challenges, edited by Alfredo Cuecuecha and Carla Pederzini, compiles twelve articles on the migration phenomenon from Mexico and other Latin American countries to the United States"--Provided by publisher.

Record details

OCLC: ocn782878315
ISBN: 6613636118
ISBN: 9786613636119
ISBN: 9781280659188
ISBN: 1280659181
ISBN: 0739169793
ISBN: 9780739169797
ISBN: 0739169807
ISBN: 9780739169803
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 287 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:	Introduction -- International migration rates based on the ENOE: methodology and main results / by Elsa Pérez Paredes and Sara Iveth Mera Ceballos -- Migration in the Mexican family life survey / Graciela Teruel, Luis Rubalcava and Erika Arenas -- The Mexican national rural household survey and rural migration / José Jorge Mora Rivera -- Beyond income differentials: explaining migrants' destinations in Mexico / M. Estela Rivero-Fuentes -- Internal migration and human development: the case of Mexico / Gabriel Lara Ibarra and Isidro Soloaga -- Gender differentials in emigration by level of education: Mexican-born adult migrants in the United States / B. Lindsay Lowell and Carla Pederzini -- Mexicans in and out of the U.S.: facts on job search and international migration / by Alfredo Cuecuecha and Silvio Rendon -- The vulnerability of Mexican temporary workers in the US with H-2 visas / Paz Trigueros Legarreta -- Measuring migration connections across Latin America / by Jonathan Hiskey and Abby Córdova -- Remittances as an economic development engine / by Pia M. Orrenius [and others] -- Is it remittances or is it tickets to America? a first look at financial transfers among new US legal immigrants born in Mexico / by Guillermina Jasso -- Migradollars in Latin America: a comparative analysis / by Douglas S. Massey, Jorge Durand and Karen A. Pren.
Note:	English.