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International Migration and Crisis

Transition Toward a New Migratory Phase

verfasst von: Ana Elizabeth Jardón Hernández

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buchreihe : SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace

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This book presents an analysis of the various transformation processes at work in the international migratory dynamic of Mexicans as a consequence of the 2008 international economic crisis and the implementation of an increasingly strict American migration policy. Employing a methodology that combines qualitative and quantitative tools, the main findings of this work indicate that the international migration of Mexicans is moving towards a new phase, an era of “contraction and disengagement” that is characterized by the confluence of multiple changes with repercussions on the functioning of international migration as a socioeconomic strategy at the family and migrant community levels.

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Frontmatter

Chapter 1. Introduction

Abstract

Over the past three decades migratory processes between Mexico and the U.S. have undergone significant changes in their dynamics and modalities, as well as in the sociodemographic characteristics of migrants. Mexico’s economic crisis, economic restructuring in the U.S., the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), and the maturation of transnational networks of migrants all contributed to the enormous expansion of international migration from Mexico; i.e., the accelerated increase of migrant flows—documented and undocumented—the weakening of circular migration, the growing presence of Mexicans in the U.S. and the explosive increase of monetary remittances.

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Chapter 2. Continuity and Change: From the Boom to the Slowing Down of International Migration from Mexico to the U.S.

Abstract

In the literature on international migration we notice important efforts to explain, according to various perspectives and theoretical approaches, why do people migrate? And, which are the factors that explain the continuity and change in the international migratory processes? According to Cornelius four are the factors: the economic crises in Mexico, the economic restructuring and demand for labor migrants in the U.S., the changes in American migratory policy and the maturation of migrants’ transnational networks. It might be said that these four approaches allow explaining the dynamics of continuity and change that Mexican international migrations have historical witnessed: the demographic, economic, political and sociocultural approaches.

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Chapter 3. Changes and Continuities in the International Migratory Dynamics of Las Vueltas: Transition Toward a New Migratory Phase?

Abstract

Historicity, massiveness, and [geographic] vicinity are the three main characteristics that have made Mexican international migration a particular social phenomenon, different from other displacements heading for the U.S., because the conjugation of these three components defines the Mexican migratory flow as a massive and centennial social process, which in a context of vicinity has instituted a dynamical and changing phenomena, which nevertheless at the same time has been permanent, constant and historical.

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Chapter 4. Transformation Processes in International Migration as a Strategy of Family Life and Community Organization

Abstract

In the studies on life strategies (livelihoods) underlies the intention to analyze, how does the population that cannot receive a sufficient income to meet their needs materially subsist? Even though this concept has been linked, among others, with that of survival and reproduction strategies, family survival and existence, life strategies refer to the set of actions that families set to meet their needs for food, housing, education, healthcare, clothing and others. This is to say, life strategies incorporate the set of [socially determined] behaviors that secure biological reproduction and optimize the material and non-material conditions of the social agents’ existence [according to their social position]. This is why, they represent a pattern of reproduction activities that comes from the coordination between actors and is determined according to the processes of social differentiation and power relations.

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Chapter 5. Conclusions

Abstract

In recent years Mexico has undergone a prolonged economic crisis, which aggravated with the 2008 American recession. In relation to international migration, we have observed that the weakened and slow recovery of the U.S. provoked that Mexican international migratory processes experienced various changes in their organization, magnitude and intensity, with multiple and differenced implications between regions with long migratory tradition and regions of emergent migration.

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Backmatter

Titel: International Migration and Crisis
verfasst von: Ana Elizabeth Jardón Hernández
Copyright-Jahr: 2017
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-43898-6
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-43897-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43898-6