Contents
Contributors
Preface
Chapter 1. What We Learned from the Mexican Migration Project \ Jorge Durand and Douglas S. Massey
Part I. Migration and the Family
Chapter 2. Trends in Mexican Migration to the United States, 1965 to 1995 \ Marcela Cerrutti and Douglas S. Massey
Chapter 3. Migrants’ Social Capital and Investing Remittances in Mexico \ Margarita Mooney
Chapter 4. U.S. Migration, Home Ownership, and Housing Quality \ Emilio A. Parrado
Chapter 5. The Green Card as a Matrimonial Strategy: Self-Interest in the Choice of Marital Partners \ Enrique Martínez Curiel
Part II. Migration and Gender
Chapter 6. Women and Men on the Move: Undocumented Border Crossing \ Katharine M. Donato and Evelyn Patterson
Chapter 7. Wives Left Behind: The Labor Market Behavior of Women in Migrant Communities \ María Aysa and Douglas S. Massey
Part III. Regional Variations
Chapter 8. Tijuana’s Place in the Mexican Migration Stream: Destination for Internal Migrants or Stepping Stone to the United States? \ Elizabeth Fussell
Chapter 9. Old Paradigms and New Scenarios in a Migratory Tradition: U.S. Migration from Guanajuato \ Patricia Arias
Chapter 10. Social Capital and Emigration from Rural and Urban Communities \ Nadia Y. Flores, Rubén Hernández-León, and Douglas S. Massey
Chapter 11. Cumulative Causation Among Internal and International Mexican Migrants \ Estela Rivero-Fuentes
Part IV. Policy Considerations
Chapter 12. A Profile of Mexican Workers in U.S. Agriculture \ William A. Kandel
Chapter 13. Return Versus Settlement Among Undocumented Mexican Migrants, 1980 to 1996 \ Fernando Riosmena
Chapter 14. The Effect of U.S. Border Enforcement on the Crossing Behavior of Mexican Migrants \ Pia M. Orrenius
Chapter 15. U.S. Immigration Policy and the Duration of Undocumented Trips \ Belinda I. Reyes
Chapter 16. Appendix: The Mexican Migration Project \ Jorge Durand and Douglas S. Massey
Index