The Economic Crisis and Mexican Migration

From UC San Diego:

LOS MIGRANTES DE LA CRISIS: New Research on the Impact of Economic Crisis on Mexican Migration and Settlement Behavior

Today, June 4, 2:00-4:00 PM
Eleanor Roosevelt College Administration Building
Conference Room 115, First Floor

Participants in the Mexican Migration Field Research and Training Program (MMFRP) at UCSD’s Center for Comparative Immigration Studies will present findings from their survey and ethnographic research in rural Yucatán and southern California in 2008-09. Drawing on 1,030 survey interviews and more than 500 hours of open-ended, life history interviews, MMFRP participants will report how Yucateco migrants and their relatives still in Mexico are coping with the current U.S. economic crisis; how U.S. border and interior enforcement policies are influencing decisions to migrate or stay in the United States; migrants’ modes of incorporation into the U.S. labor market; the changing family dynamics of migration; the youth culture of migration; and how migration is shaping education, nutrition, health care, and community participation on both sides of the border.

Moderator:

David Fitzgerald (dfitzgerald@ucsd.edu), Associate Director, CCIS, and Associate Professor of Sociology, UCSD

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