Impacts of border enforcement on Mexican migration : the view from sending communities

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The work Impacts of border enforcement on Mexican migration : the view from sending communities represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Impacts of border enforcement on Mexican migration : the view from sending communities

Title remainder

the view from sending communities

Statement of responsibility

edited by Wayne A. Cornelius and Jessa M. Lewis

Contributor

• Cornelius, Wayne A., 1945-
• Lewis, Jessa M

Subject

• Border patrols -- Mexican-American Border Region
• Illegal aliens -- Government policy -- United States
• Mexicans -- United States
• Mexico -- Emigration and immigration
• United States -- Emigration and immigration

Language

eng

Summary

"This important new book reveals how the stricter US border-control activities of the past decade have affected the behavior of migrants and potential migrants in rural Mexico. The authors establish direct links between changes in immigration-control policies and changes in the decision to migrate, choice of destination, mode of entry, and inclination to participate in a temporary worker program. They also point to the unintended consequences of new control measures, such as the increasing rate of settlement among illegal migrants, higher fees paid to professional people-smugglers, increased injury and fatality rates due to clandestine entry, and changing composition of migrant flows. Collectively, they present detailed and direct evidence of the failure of post-1993 US strategy to deter unauthorized entry across the US-Mexico border, and the reasons for this failure."--Book cover

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Series statement

CCIS anthologies

Series volume

3