Mayan journeys : U.S.-bound migration from a new sending community

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Label

Mayan journeys : U.S.-bound migration from a new sending community

Title remainder

U.S.-bound migration from a new sending community

Statement of responsibility

edited by Wayne A. Cornelius, David Fitzgerald, Pedro Lewin Fischer

Contributor

• University of California, San Diego, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
• Cornelius, Wayne A., 1945-
• FitzGerald, David, 1972-
• Lewin F., Pedro

Subject

• Mayas -- Migrations
• Mexicans -- United States
• United States -- Emigration and immigration | Social aspects

Language

eng

Summary

"Yucatán, an impoverished state in southern Mexico, has recently emerged as a significant source of US-bound migrants. Why did this state's indigenous population wait so long to enter the migration stream, and how do their experiences differ from those of earlier more traditional migrants? Mayan Journeys explores how internal migration to southern Mexico's tourist resorts serves as a springboard for international migration and how the new migrants navigate enhanced obstacles at the US-Mexico border and enter the US labor force. Drawing on an extensive 2006 survey of migrants and potential migrants in Tunkás, Yucatán, and its satellite communities in Southern California, the authors provide new evidence of the failure of US border enforcement to deter undocumented migration from Mexico"--Publisher's description

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Series statement

CCIS anthologies

Series volume

4