Mexican Population Growth in New US Destinations: Testing and Developing Social Capital Theories of Migration using Census Data

Autor: Ivan Light, Stavros Karageorgis, Michael Francis Johnston
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 39:1479-1505
ISSN: 1469-9451
1369-183X
DOI: 10.1080/1369183x.2013.815430
Popis: As the preferred theory for understanding international migration, social capital theory (SCT) structures current debate about Mexican population growth in new US metropolitan destinations. We review this literature to show that SCT does not cover the secondary migration of hundreds of thousands of Mexican migrants from traditional to new US metropolitan destinations. As a complement to previous SCT applications, we develop two hypotheses about this internal migration: one that identifies the increasing growth in secondary migration relative to other Mexican migration streams to new destinations, and one that specifies ethnic economic conditions as one of the factors leading Mexicans to migrate out of traditional destinations. Data are from 140 US metropolitan areas (metros) with 2,000 or more economically active adult Mexican migrants in 1990 and 2000. Two statistical models form the analysis: a contingency table and a multi-level model applied to a specially constructed data file merging metropolitan-le...
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