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Patterns of Migration to the United States from two Mexican Communities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Richard Mines  and
Douglas S. Massey
Richard Mines
Affiliation:
Berkeley, California
Douglas S. Massey
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
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Economists have long recognized the importance of migration between less developed and more developed countries, and they have devoted considerable attention to analyzing it within the framework of traditional economic theory (Thomas 1954; Kindleberger 1967; Tapinos 1974; Greenwood 1979; Chiswick 1980; Wachter 1980; Stark 1983). But international migration entails not only an economic exchange of work for wages, it is also fundamentally a social process. Repeated human contact inevitably produces ties between persons in sending and receiving societies. Social networks are created that connect individuals in disparate cultural settings, and these ties ultimately change the context within which economic processes are played out. Understanding how such ties develop and change over time is therefore crucial to understanding the phenomenon of international migration.

Type
Research Reports and Notes
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , 1985 , pp. 104 - 123
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Copyright © 1985 by the University of Texas Press

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