Mexican Migration and Settlement
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Date
2010-06
Authors
Vasquez-Tokos, Jessica
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Publisher
Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race
Abstract
Literature on international migration, assimilation, and transnationalism continues to be concerned with questions about ties that migrants and their descendants have with their homelands, coethnics, and the native-born population. Tomás R. Jiménez's Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity and Joanna Dreby's Divided by Borders: Mexican Migrants and their Children provide important perspectives on different aspects of the larger phenomenon of international migration from Mexico to the United States that is a consequence of labor demand in the United States, economic need and job scarcity in Mexico, and a global economy. Both books deal with social life that takes place across ethnic boundaries, within ethnic groups, and across national borders. Taking qualitative approaches and dealing with the perennial tension between inclusion and exclusion, these books analyze the experiences and perspectives of Mexican migrants, Mexican children, and Mexican Americans.
Description
6 pages
Keywords
international migration, assimilation, transnationalism, ethnic identity, ethnicity, demographics
Citation
Vasquez JM. MEXICAN MIGRATION AND SETTLEMENT. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race. 2010;7(1):51-56. doi:10.1017/S1742058X10000226