R C Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 40686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R C Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | R C |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at San Antonio |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2643-8268 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 239 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1930 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The spatial diffusion of covid-19 in Texas
The predominant narrative of covid-19 emphasizes its unpredictable origins, virulence, human targets, and spatial targets. Its international spread may be erratic, but at the regional level, diffusion research has been able to forecast its spread with some accuracy. This study reviews research showing how infectious disease spread over space may be predicted dependent upon a place's size, distance from large cities and disease entry points, popul…
Mexican Immigration and the Decline of Transnationalism: A 30-Year Retrospective
The migration literature has established that transnationalism between origin and destination lessens over time for international migrants. This study asks whether this decline takes place for entire towns in the country of origin and what may be the causes of the decline. Household surveys by the author in two counties in central Zacatecas state, Mexico, in 1988 and again in 2018, provide some answers. Results document a decline in transnational…
Has Daca promoted work over schooling and professional advancement for qualifying Mexican Dreamers
Objective This study questions whether the Deferred Actionfor Childhood Arrivals (DACA) has promoted the educational and career advancement in a subgroup of Mexican youth who crossed illegally by their parents at a young age, or has not promoted such advancement. Methods I draw upon recent research on this topic. From the American Community Survey, I drill down to a cohort of young Mexicans who qualified for DACA in 2012, and follow it to 2016. R…
A Time-Space Stream of Daca Benefits and Barriers Gleaned From the American Community Survey
This study investigates the educational and economic attainment of Mexican Dreamers over the 4 years since DACA was implemented (2012–2016). A time-space stream of benefits and barriers is evaluated at the national, state, and individual levels. Based on assumptions linking the DACA-eligible to DACA recipients, I examine the annual American Community Survey (ACS) to glean insights not provided elsewhere. At national level, the results suggest tha…
The decline of migrant transnationalism with time abroad
In this study, grounded in the literature on transnational migration, a theory of transnational social gravity is developed in which economic, social, and psychological dimensions of transnationalism increase or remain stable initially, and decline after reaching separate inflection points based on competing bonding social capital with the origin and destination as a migrant's time abroad increases. The theory is tested for the case of 361 active…
The Central American Child Migration Surge: A Temporal and Spatial Investigation of its Causes
Almost one-fifth of the “surge” of Central American migrants crossing the US border in early 2014 was unaccompanied children, mostly from the “Northern Triangle”—Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Although prior research identifies violence, economic factors, and US policies as probable causes, determining their relative importance is more challenging. In this article I examine time trends in child migration from the Northern Triangle in relat…
Harbingers of Migration Regression: Global Trends and a Mexican Case Study
Objectives The question raised here is whether global labor migration has reached its high‐water mark and will not in fact recover its prerecession magnitudes. This study examines this question, and the underlying causes of migration regression, reviewing studies at the international level and carrying out a case study of Jerez municipio , Zacatecas, Mexico. Methods Two surveys in Jerez—of 242 randomly selected households in six towns in 1995, an…
Migration Pessimism and the Subjective Well-Being of Migrant Households in Mexico
A new migration pessimism argues that the economic benefits of international labour migration for migrant households may not justify the social costs. This article provides a test of this argument based on the author's survey of 304 households in Jerez municipio (municipality), Zacatecas, Mexico, in 2009. The results indicate that active households (those with at least one migrant abroad) perceived their economic situation to have improved more, …
The Decline of International Migration as an Economic Force in Rural Areas: A Mexican Case Study
Since 2000, and especially since 2007, there has been a reduction in the importance of international migration and remittances in major global sending regions as a result of recession in receiving countries, anti-immigrant policies, and improvement in economic opportunities in origin countries. A household survey in five rural communities in Zacatecas, Mexico, in 1995 and again in 2009 exemplifies these trends. Among youthful adults likely to hav…
Migration and Family Happiness in Bolivia: Does Social Disintegration Negate Economic Well‐being
Various authors have begun to address the social impacts of international migration on families left behind. Family disintegration results from two separate factors: family separation and the loss of traditional values. Findings from this research (based on a random survey of over 400 households in three municipios of the central part of the state of Cochabamba, Bolivia, in the autumn of 2007) indicate that economic well‐being made possible by mi…
Migrant agency and community structure: Competing explanations for economic decline in migrant sending communities of rural central Mexico
In response to Giddens' structuration theory, this study attempts to unravel the linkages between migration and local economic growth by moving beyond the household to the community level of analysis, and by considering lagged relationships over several years. The case study -24 towns in central Zacatecas, Mexico-concludes that remittances from US migration play an ambiguous role, providing basic income but at the same time resulting in more expe…
Migration stage and household income inequality: Evidence from the Valle Alto of Bolivia
A three-stage diffusion model of international migration and inequality posits that household income inequality first increases, then decreases, and finally increases again as a community's migration experience deepens. Analysis of data from a survey of 417 households in the Valle Alto region of Bolivia supports this model. Concomitant with the region's overall position in the middle stage, the results indicate that income inequality among active…
Diminished tradition of return? Transnational migration in Bolivia's Valle Alto
One-fifth of the Bolivian population lives abroad, and transnational behaviour strongly links their villages with destination communities. In this article we address whether the increasing difficulty of return migration (owing to legal and geographic barriers) results in diminished social and economic remittances to the country of origin. Results from a questionnaire survey of 417 households in the Valle Alto area of Cochabamba Department in 2007…
The local economic imprint of return migrants in Bolivia
Until recently the role of international return migrants in local economic development has received little attention from researchers. Drawing upon Granovetter's notion of embeddedness and Levitt's concept of social remittances , I argue that return migrants are more locally embedded (in terms of local networks and cultural affinity) and better able to transfer social remittances (skills, social capital, and norms) from abroad, than active migran…
The Ambiguous Roles of Suburbanization and Immigration in Ethnic Segregation: The Case of San Antonio 1
The traditional spatial assimilation model, though still operative, has proven inadequate to explain new trends in urban residential location in which, for example, disadvantaged and newly arrived groups move directly to the suburbs where they may re-segregate rather than disperse. Understanding residential patterns after 1990 often benefits from a micro-level approach, looking at specific cities and disaggregating traditional measures (e.g., the…
Commentary on the special issue - Today and tomorrow: Engineering education in transitioning societies
Endurance of Transnationalism in Bolivia’s Valle Alto
The increasing difficulty of return migration and the demands for assimilation into host societies suggest a long-term cutting of ties to origin areas—likely accentuated in the Bolivian case by the recent shift in destinations from Argentina to the US and Spain. Making use of a stratified random sample of 417 families as well as ethnographic interviews in the provinces of Punata, Esteban Arze, and Jordán in the Valle Alto region the authors inves…
Cultural Diversity in a “Bi-Cultural” City: Factors in the Location of Ancestry Groups in San Antonio
This study examines the factors that influence the residential segregation and spatial patterns of twenty-seven ancestry groups in San Antonio (Bexar County), Texas, in 2000. It is hypothesized that the residential segregation of an ancestry group (measured by its dissimilarity index at census tract level) is positively related to the recency of the group's arrival, its identification with a non-European culture, and its tendency to exhibit eithe…
Multinational Investment and the Mobility Transition in Mexico and Ireland
Mexico and Ireland, traditionally countries of emigration, experienced pronounced multinationalization of their economies during the 1990s. In Ireland net emigration declined, but in Mexico it remained quite high, suggesting that Ireland advanced in the mobility transition while Mexico did not. Several reasons are offered to explain this, reflecting Mexico's relationships with the United States, multinational corporations, and local income and so…
Why Remittances Shouldn't Be Blamed for Rural Underdevelopment in Mexico: A Collective Response to Leigh Binford
Leigh Binford, borrowing from Jones (1995a), suggests two major thematic positions in Mexican-US migration and development research: first, neoMarxist critiques and structural inquiries of the 1970s and 1980s; and second, 'apologetic' functional models of the 1980s and 1990s, which come to positive rather than negative conclusions concerning remittance outcomes. Neo-Marxists and structural models are represented in Binford's article by Mines (198…
The segregation of ancestry groups in San Antonio
Despite some evidence for the economic advancement and suburbanization of urban-bound immigrants in the United States, the preponderance of evidence points to increasing residential segregation of these groups in ethnic enclaves in U.S. cities. In this study, based on an extensive literature review, the segregation of an ancestry group is tied to the group’s SES, recency, physical and cultural distinctiveness, and social distance as judged by the…
Environmental deterioration and disease in the Middle Rio Grande Valley: An investigation of the linkages at household level
The high costs of rapid growth in the fragile environment of the Middle Rio Grande Valley of Texas and Mexico have become more evident in recent years. This study investigates the relationships between selected diseases and a wide range of site and situational factors for 2,140 households located in the environmentally strained colonias of Laredo‐Nuevo Laredo, Eagle Pass‐Piedras Negras, and Del Rio‐Ciudad Acuña. The results suggest that gastroint…
Introduction: The Renewed Role of Remittances in the New World Order
Remittances and Inequality: A Question of Migration Stage and Geographic Scale
Over the past decade, the benefits from economic globalization have bypassed most developing countries, and as a result international wage‐labor migration has taken on new importance. The impact of remittances on migrant origins is still, however, a subject of considerable debate. Some researchers find that remittances tend to increase income inequalities, whereas others find just the opposite—even, upon occasion, when they are writing about the …
Ambivalent Journey: U.S. Migration and Economic Mobility in North-Central Mexico
Spatial Patterns and Regional Growth among Classic Maya Cities
An objective methodology, based upon the rank-ordering and spatial patterning of Maya centers of the central Peten and central Yucatan zones, is used to infer developmental sequencing in the Maya Lowlands. If courtyard counts are employed as the basic measure of center importance, the Tikal and Calakmul regions each exhibit a size continuum of centers, consistent with the rank-size rule. The Rio Bec and Chenes regions exhibit a size distribution …
Remittances and Inequality: A Question of Migration Stage and Geographic Scale
Over the past decade, the benefits from economic globalization have bypassed most developing countries, and as a result international wage‐labor migration has taken on new importance. The impact of remittances on migrant origins is still, however, a subject of considerable debate. Some researchers find that remittances tend to increase income inequalities, whereas others find just the opposite—even, upon occasion, when they are writing about the …
Causes of Salvadoran Migration to the United States
Underlying causes of Salvadoran migration to the United States are conflict related but controversy continues over whether the immediate motivations are political or economic. Information from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service on department of origin of Salvadorans apprehended between 1982 and 1985 and from news accounts of Salvadoran political violence and economic setbacks are used to determine correlations between migration and p…
Why Remittances Shouldn't Be Blamed for Rural Underdevelopment in Mexico: A Collective Response to Leigh Binford
Leigh Binford, borrowing from Jones (1995a), suggests two major thematic positions in Mexican-US migration and development research: first, neoMarxist critiques and structural inquiries of the 1970s and 1980s; and second, 'apologetic' functional models of the 1980s and 1990s, which come to positive rather than negative conclusions concerning remittance outcomes. Neo-Marxists and structural models are represented in Binford's article by Mines (198…
The Ambiguous Roles of Suburbanization and Immigration in Ethnic Segregation: The Case of San Antonio 1
The traditional spatial assimilation model, though still operative, has proven inadequate to explain new trends in urban residential location in which, for example, disadvantaged and newly arrived groups move directly to the suburbs where they may re-segregate rather than disperse. Understanding residential patterns after 1990 often benefits from a micro-level approach, looking at specific cities and disaggregating traditional measures (e.g., the…
Introduction: The Renewed Role of Remittances in the New World Order
Accessibility to comprehensive higher education in Texas
The purpose of this study is to conceptualize the different dimensions of access to higher education, and to examine the nature of current spatial access to comprehensive universities in Texas (i.e., those offering multiple doctorates and awarding at least 10 doctorate degrees per year). We conclude that the Border Region of Texas is an especially deprived area in this regard. The average Border student must travel five times as far to the closes…
Undocumented Migration from Mexico: Some Geographical Questions
Although undocumented Mexican immigrants in the United States are highly concentrated in California and Texas, their locations have become increasingly dispersed in recent years. The most rapid growth in apprehensions by U.S. authorities is now occurring outside the Southwest. Furthermore, the already-dispersed patterns of migrant origins in Mexico are becoming more so over time. Thus the phenomenon of undocumented flows is spreading spatially in…
Channelization of Undocumented Mexican Migrants to the U.S
Undocumented migration from Mexico, which has accellerated markedly over the last ten years, has stimulated enough research that it is now possible to generalize about geographic distributions of migrants in Mexico and in the United States. Such migration is a widespread phenomenon in Mexico, with a majority of states participating significantly. In the U.S., however, only a few states are significant recipients of undocumenteds, with California,…
The segregation of ancestry groups in San Antonio
Despite some evidence for the economic advancement and suburbanization of urban-bound immigrants in the United States, the preponderance of evidence points to increasing residential segregation of these groups in ethnic enclaves in U.S. cities. In this study, based on an extensive literature review, the segregation of an ancestry group is tied to the group’s SES, recency, physical and cultural distinctiveness, and social distance as judged by the…
The decline of migrant transnationalism with time abroad
In this study, grounded in the literature on transnational migration, a theory of transnational social gravity is developed in which economic, social, and psychological dimensions of transnationalism increase or remain stable initially, and decline after reaching separate inflection points based on competing bonding social capital with the origin and destination as a migrant's time abroad increases. The theory is tested for the case of 361 active…
Diminished tradition of return? Transnational migration in Bolivia's Valle Alto
One-fifth of the Bolivian population lives abroad, and transnational behaviour strongly links their villages with destination communities. In this article we address whether the increasing difficulty of return migration (owing to legal and geographic barriers) results in diminished social and economic remittances to the country of origin. Results from a questionnaire survey of 417 households in the Valle Alto area of Cochabamba Department in 2007…
The local economic imprint of return migrants in Bolivia
Until recently the role of international return migrants in local economic development has received little attention from researchers. Drawing upon Granovetter's notion of embeddedness and Levitt's concept of social remittances , I argue that return migrants are more locally embedded (in terms of local networks and cultural affinity) and better able to transfer social remittances (skills, social capital, and norms) from abroad, than active migran…
Ambivalent Journey: U. S. Migration and Economic Mobility in North-Central Mexico
Ambivalent Journey: U.S. Migration and Economic Mobility in North-Central Mexico
The changing political and economic relationships between Mexico and the United States, and the concurrent U.S. debate over immigration policy and practice, demand new data on migration and its economic effects. In this innovative study, Richard C. Jones analyzes migration patterns from two subregions of north-central Mexico, Coahuila and Zacatecas, to the United States. He analyzes and contrasts the characteristics of the two migrant populations…
Migration and Family Happiness in Bolivia: Does Social Disintegration Negate Economic Well‐being
Various authors have begun to address the social impacts of international migration on families left behind. Family disintegration results from two separate factors: family separation and the loss of traditional values. Findings from this research (based on a random survey of over 400 households in three municipios of the central part of the state of Cochabamba, Bolivia, in the autumn of 2007) indicate that economic well‐being made possible by mi…
Myth Maps and Migration in Venezuela
Interviews in five out-migration zones of Venezuela reveal that young potential migrants perceive economic opportunities and quality of life eater than they actually are in the Andes and east coast and less than they are in the Llanos. The myth maps constructed on the basis of such misperceptions may be attributed to images purveyed in major Venezuelan newspapers. It is shown statistically that relative to objective urban characteristics percepti…
The Decline of International Migration as an Economic Force in Rural Areas: A Mexican Case Study
Since 2000, and especially since 2007, there has been a reduction in the importance of international migration and remittances in major global sending regions as a result of recession in receiving countries, anti-immigrant policies, and improvement in economic opportunities in origin countries. A household survey in five rural communities in Zacatecas, Mexico, in 1995 and again in 2009 exemplifies these trends. Among youthful adults likely to hav…
Multinational Investment and the Mobility Transition in Mexico and Ireland
Mexico and Ireland, traditionally countries of emigration, experienced pronounced multinationalization of their economies during the 1990s. In Ireland net emigration declined, but in Mexico it remained quite high, suggesting that Ireland advanced in the mobility transition while Mexico did not. Several reasons are offered to explain this, reflecting Mexico's relationships with the United States, multinational corporations, and local income and so…
The Central American Child Migration Surge: A Temporal and Spatial Investigation of its Causes
Almost one-fifth of the “surge” of Central American migrants crossing the US border in early 2014 was unaccompanied children, mostly from the “Northern Triangle”—Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Although prior research identifies violence, economic factors, and US policies as probable causes, determining their relative importance is more challenging. In this article I examine time trends in child migration from the Northern Triangle in relat…
A Time-Space Stream of Daca Benefits and Barriers Gleaned From the American Community Survey
This study investigates the educational and economic attainment of Mexican Dreamers over the 4 years since DACA was implemented (2012–2016). A time-space stream of benefits and barriers is evaluated at the national, state, and individual levels. Based on assumptions linking the DACA-eligible to DACA recipients, I examine the annual American Community Survey (ACS) to glean insights not provided elsewhere. At national level, the results suggest tha…
Harbingers of Migration Regression: Global Trends and a Mexican Case Study
Objectives The question raised here is whether global labor migration has reached its high‐water mark and will not in fact recover its prerecession magnitudes. This study examines this question, and the underlying causes of migration regression, reviewing studies at the international level and carrying out a case study of Jerez municipio , Zacatecas, Mexico. Methods Two surveys in Jerez—of 242 randomly selected households in six towns in 1995, an…
Immigration Reform and Migrant Flows: Compositional and Spatial Changes in Mexican Migration after the Immigration Reform Act of 1986
In the United States as well as in Western Europe, a combination of recession, nativist popular attitudes, and trade liberalization since 1980 has been accompanied by increasing immigration restrictions. This paper poses a singular question: Has the stiffening of U.S. immigration policy [by the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), and subsequent policy decisions] reduced the volume and changed the composition and origins of Mexican …
Occupational and Spatial Mobility of Temporary Mexican Migrants to the U.S: A Comparative Analysis
Richard C. Jones, William Breen Murray, Occupational and Spatial Mobility of Temporary Mexican Migrants to the U.S.: A Comparative Analysis, The International Migration Review, Vol. 20, No. 4, Special Issue: Temporary Worker Programs: Mechanisms, Conditions, Consequences (Winter, 1986), pp. 973-985
Occupational and Spatial Mobility of Temporary Mexican Migrants to the U.S: A Comparative Analysis
U.S. job and spatial mobility are compared here for recent returnee migrants from two Mexican areas — Rio Grande, Zacatecas, in the interior; and Nueva Rosita-Muzquiz, Coahuila, near the U.S. border. Results suggest that the interior migrants fit a hierarchical migrant model: they move up the urban hierarchy from U.S. rural areas to towns and cities, experiencing substantial job mobility at first, but little after reaching the urban sector. Borde…
Ensayo de Psicologia de la Adolescencia. Ezequiel A. Chavez
Development of Inter-American Cooperation in the Field of the Social Sciences with Special Reference to Sociology
Journal Article Development of Inter-American Cooperation in the Field of the Social Sciences with Special Reference to Sociology Get access Robert C. Jones Robert C. Jones Pan American Union Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 28, Issue 1, October 1949, Pages 45–49, https://doi.org/10.2307/2572096 Published: 01 October 1949
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Lee M. Brooks, Ernest Q. Campbell, Charles B. Nam, Charles M. Grigg, John J. Honigmann, Robert Cuba Jones, David A. Gover, Ruth George Dobson, Jiri Kolaja
Myth Maps and Migration in Venezuela
Interviews in five out-migration zones of Venezuela reveal that young potential migrants perceive economic opportunities and quality of life eater than they actually are in the Andes and east coast and less than they are in the Llanos. The myth maps constructed on the basis of such misperceptions may be attributed to images purveyed in major Venezuelan newspapers. It is shown statistically that relative to objective urban characteristics percepti…
Spatial Patterns and Regional Growth among Classic Maya Cities
An objective methodology, based upon the rank-ordering and spatial patterning of Maya centers of the central Peten and central Yucatan zones, is used to infer developmental sequencing in the Maya Lowlands. If courtyard counts are employed as the basic measure of center importance, the Tikal and Calakmul regions each exhibit a size continuum of centers, consistent with the rank-size rule. The Rio Bec and Chenes regions exhibit a size distribution …
Undocumented Migration from Mexico: Some Geographical Questions
Although undocumented Mexican immigrants in the United States are highly concentrated in California and Texas, their locations have become increasingly dispersed in recent years. The most rapid growth in apprehensions by U.S. authorities is now occurring outside the Southwest. Furthermore, the already-dispersed patterns of migrant origins in Mexico are becoming more so over time. Thus the phenomenon of undocumented flows is spreading spatially in…
Channelization of Undocumented Mexican Migrants to the U.S
Undocumented migration from Mexico, which has accellerated markedly over the last ten years, has stimulated enough research that it is now possible to generalize about geographic distributions of migrants in Mexico and in the United States. Such migration is a widespread phenomenon in Mexico, with a majority of states participating significantly. In the U.S., however, only a few states are significant recipients of undocumenteds, with California,…
Patterns of Undocumented Migration: Mexico and the United States
Spécificités de l'immigration française au Canada après la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale
Joy and sorrows of French immigration in Canada after the Second World War. Richard JONES Few immigrants came to Canada from France in the years following the Second World War. Certainly, the French government did not regard emigration with enthusiasm and the French-speaking province of Quebec, in Canada, did little to welcome new arrivals, even those from France. Still, the Canadian government must bear a large part of the blame for this failure…
Occupational and Spatial Mobility of Temporary Mexican Migrants to the U.S: A Comparative Analysis
Richard C. Jones, William Breen Murray, Occupational and Spatial Mobility of Temporary Mexican Migrants to the U.S.: A Comparative Analysis, The International Migration Review, Vol. 20, No. 4, Special Issue: Temporary Worker Programs: Mechanisms, Conditions, Consequences (Winter, 1986), pp. 973-985
Occupational and Spatial Mobility of Temporary Mexican Migrants to the U.S: A Comparative Analysis
U.S. job and spatial mobility are compared here for recent returnee migrants from two Mexican areas — Rio Grande, Zacatecas, in the interior; and Nueva Rosita-Muzquiz, Coahuila, near the U.S. border. Results suggest that the interior migrants fit a hierarchical migrant model: they move up the urban hierarchy from U.S. rural areas to towns and cities, experiencing substantial job mobility at first, but little after reaching the urban sector. Borde…
Causes of Salvadoran Migration to the United States
Underlying causes of Salvadoran migration to the United States are conflict related but controversy continues over whether the immediate motivations are political or economic. Information from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service on department of origin of Salvadorans apprehended between 1982 and 1985 and from news accounts of Salvadoran political violence and economic setbacks are used to determine correlations between migration and p…
The Urban economic Base in a Trans‐Border setting: A case study of two towns
Accessibility to comprehensive higher education in Texas
The purpose of this study is to conceptualize the different dimensions of access to higher education, and to examine the nature of current spatial access to comprehensive universities in Texas (i.e., those offering multiple doctorates and awarding at least 10 doctorate degrees per year). We conclude that the Border Region of Texas is an especially deprived area in this regard. The average Border student must travel five times as far to the closes…
Immigration Reform and Migrant Flows: Compositional and Spatial Changes in Mexican Migration after the Immigration Reform Act of 1986
In the United States as well as in Western Europe, a combination of recession, nativist popular attitudes, and trade liberalization since 1980 has been accompanied by increasing immigration restrictions. This paper poses a singular question: Has the stiffening of U.S. immigration policy [by the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), and subsequent policy decisions] reduced the volume and changed the composition and origins of Mexican …
Ambivalent Journey: U. S. Migration and Economic Mobility in North-Central Mexico
Ambivalent Journey: U.S. Migration and Economic Mobility in North-Central Mexico
Ambivalent Journey: U.S. Migration and Economic Mobility in North-Central Mexico
The changing political and economic relationships between Mexico and the United States, and the concurrent U.S. debate over immigration policy and practice, demand new data on migration and its economic effects. In this innovative study, Richard C. Jones analyzes migration patterns from two subregions of north-central Mexico, Coahuila and Zacatecas, to the United States. He analyzes and contrasts the characteristics of the two migrant populations…
Introduction: The Renewed Role of Remittances in the New World Order
Remittances and Inequality: A Question of Migration Stage and Geographic Scale
Over the past decade, the benefits from economic globalization have bypassed most developing countries, and as a result international wage‐labor migration has taken on new importance. The impact of remittances on migrant origins is still, however, a subject of considerable debate. Some researchers find that remittances tend to increase income inequalities, whereas others find just the opposite—even, upon occasion, when they are writing about the …
Environmental deterioration and disease in the Middle Rio Grande Valley: An investigation of the linkages at household level
The high costs of rapid growth in the fragile environment of the Middle Rio Grande Valley of Texas and Mexico have become more evident in recent years. This study investigates the relationships between selected diseases and a wide range of site and situational factors for 2,140 households located in the environmentally strained colonias of Laredo‐Nuevo Laredo, Eagle Pass‐Piedras Negras, and Del Rio‐Ciudad Acuña. The results suggest that gastroint…
The segregation of ancestry groups in San Antonio
Despite some evidence for the economic advancement and suburbanization of urban-bound immigrants in the United States, the preponderance of evidence points to increasing residential segregation of these groups in ethnic enclaves in U.S. cities. In this study, based on an extensive literature review, the segregation of an ancestry group is tied to the group’s SES, recency, physical and cultural distinctiveness, and social distance as judged by the…
Multinational Investment and the Mobility Transition in Mexico and Ireland
Mexico and Ireland, traditionally countries of emigration, experienced pronounced multinationalization of their economies during the 1990s. In Ireland net emigration declined, but in Mexico it remained quite high, suggesting that Ireland advanced in the mobility transition while Mexico did not. Several reasons are offered to explain this, reflecting Mexico's relationships with the United States, multinational corporations, and local income and so…
Why Remittances Shouldn't Be Blamed for Rural Underdevelopment in Mexico: A Collective Response to Leigh Binford
Leigh Binford, borrowing from Jones (1995a), suggests two major thematic positions in Mexican-US migration and development research: first, neoMarxist critiques and structural inquiries of the 1970s and 1980s; and second, 'apologetic' functional models of the 1980s and 1990s, which come to positive rather than negative conclusions concerning remittance outcomes. Neo-Marxists and structural models are represented in Binford's article by Mines (198…
Commentary on the special issue - Today and tomorrow: Engineering education in transitioning societies
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