Impacts of Border Enforcement on Mexican Migration: The View from Sending Communities (Ccis Anthologies)

Bys: Jessa M. Lewis and Wayne A. Cornelius

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0970283873
• ISBN13: 9780970283870
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner Pub
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.5" x 6.0"

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An absolute "must-read" for any policymaker or governmental figure dealing with this tangled and dif

Impacts of Border Enforcement on Mexican Migration: The View From Sending Communities is an anthology of essays by learned authors concerning the thorny issue of illegal immigration in America along the US-Mexico border, and how American border control activities have affected the behavior of migrants and potential migrants in Mexico. Of especial interest is that America's current policy of mere deterrence through sporadic, concentrated border guarding simply isn't achieving its intended goal; instead, undocumented immigrants are increasingly braving the unguarded territory amid no-man's-land, resulting in deadly toll of lives; others pay exorbitant fees to "coyotes" or professional people-smugglers; and more illegal immigrants than ever choose to stay indefinitely once present in America rather than return home, knowing how difficult and dangerous it would be to return. Individual essays in Impacts of Border Enforcement on Mexican Migration further scrutinize details, from "U.S. Settlement Behavior and Labor Market Participation" to "Gender Differences". An up-to-date, expertly researched close study, and an absolute "must-read" for any policymaker or governmental figure dealing with this tangled and difficult issue.