New Book: IMPACTS OF BORDER ENFORCEMENT ON MEXICAN MIGRATION: THE VIEW FROM SENDING COMMUNITIES

The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UC-San Diego is pleased to The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UC-San Diego is pleased to announce the publication of IMPACTS OF BORDER ENFORCEMENT ON MEXICAN MIGRATION: THE VIEW FROM SENDING COMMUNITIES, coedited by Wayne A. Cornelius and Jessa M. Lewis. The book is a co-publication of CCIS and Lynne Rienner Publishers (Boulder, Col.), which is distributing it. To order, go to: http://www.rienner.com/viewbook.cfm?BOOKID=1610&search=cornelius This is the first in a series of volumes produced by the Mexican Migration Field Research and Training Program (based in CCIS and UCSD’s Eleanor Roosevelt College). Each volume is based on original survey and qualitative research conducted by binational teams in Mexican migrant-sending and U.S. receiving communities. The inaugural volume focuses on how stricter U.S. border-control activities have affected the behavior of migrants and potential migrants in rural Mexico. The book, based on data collected in 2005 in Jalisco and Zacatecas, presents detailed and direct evidence of the failure of the post-1993 U.S. border enforcement strategy to deter unauthorized entry across the U.S.-Mexico border, and discusses the reasons for this failure of deterrence. Other topics explored in the volume include the process of migrant settlement in the United States, gender differences in U.S.-bound migration, and the impacts of migration on economic development, culture, and political life in the sending communities.

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