Wayne A Cornelius
Biographic Data
| ID | 74083 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wayne A Cornelius |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wayne A |
| FAMILY NAME | Cornelius |
| SIGNATURE | CORNELIUS W A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7173-2338 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 650 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Subnational immigration policymaking in the United States
This article explores the role of restrictive issue entrepreneurs in furthering immigration federalism in the United States. We define such entrepreneurs as political actors who promote restrictions on immigration to get votes and enhance their own political careers. Research has identified the variables that most strongly predict the passage of immigration-related legislation at the state and local levels, but less understood are the actual mech…
La inmigración como tema en las elecciones estadounidenses y su importancia
Este artículo analiza la relevancia de la inmigración como tema en los ciclos electorales de Estados Unidos desde 2000 a 2024. Al explicar el fuerte aumento de la importancia de la inmigración en las elecciones de 2024, en las cuales es el tema más importante para la mayoría de los votantes, hace hincapié en la retórica del candidato presidencial Donald Trump, el emprendimiento político antiinmigrante de gobernadores estatales, el nivel histórico…
Transnational Political Engagement and the Civic Incorporation of Mexican Immigrants in the United States
Many migrants to the U.S. are engaged in public affairs in their country of origin. Whether such engagement impedes or encourages engagement in American politics remains an open question. Drawing from a unique two-wave panel survey of Mexican immigrants conducted in 2006, with surveys waves fielded to correspond to national elections in Mexico and the United States, we examine the relationship between transnational political engagement and attent…
Human Capital versus Social Capital A Comparative Analysis of Immigrant Wages and Labor Market Incorporation in Japan and the United States
For the United States, the most commonly used model of immigrant labor-market incorporationanalyzes earnings largely as a function of human-capital variables. However,this simple model is not necessarily applicable cross-culturally and may lose much of itsexplanatory power in other societies, where immigrants encounter different labor-marketconditions. This article evaluates multivariate models of wage determination forsamples of foreign workers …
A Qualitative View of Drug Use Behaviors of Mexican Male Injection Drug Users Deported from the United States
Deportees are a hidden yet highly vulnerable and numerous population. Significantly, little data exists about the substance use and deportation experiences of Mexicans deported from the United States. This pilot qualitative study describes illicit drug use behaviors among 24 Mexico-born male injection drug users (IDUs), ≥ 18 years old, residing in Tijuana, Mexico who self-identified as deportees from the United States. In-person interviews were c…
Deportation Along the U.S.–Mexico Border
Does border enforcement deter unauthorized immigration? The case of Mexican migration to the United States of America
This paper asks whether the migration decisions of unauthorized Mexican immigrants to the USA have been influenced by stronger US border enforcement efforts since 1993 that have sharply increased the physical risk and financial cost of illegal immigration. These measures were supposed to have decreased the probability of successful entry, thereby lowering the expected benefits of migration. We carried out a logistic regression analysis of data fr…
Immigrant Voting in Home-Country Elections
Despite widespread interest in the effects of expanding expatriate Mexicans' ability to vote in the 2006 Mexican presidential election, no systematic estimates of potential participation currently exist. Applying logistic regression techniques to 2001 Los Angeles County Mexican Immigrant Residency Status Survey data and 2002 Current Population Survey data, we find that 125,000 to 360,000 (1.5–4.2 percent of ) expatriate Mexican migrants residing …
Immigration and Politics
With nearly one in ten residents of advanced industrialized states now an immigrant, international migration has become a fundamental driver of social, economic, and political change. We review alternative models of migratory behavior (which emphasize structural factors largely beyond states' control) as well as models of immigration policy making that seek to explain the gaps between stated policy and actual outcomes. Some scholars attempt to ex…
Controlling 'Unwanted' Immigration
This paper evaluates the strategy for controlling “unwanted” immigration that has been implemented by the U.S. government since 1993, and suggests explanations for the failure of that strategy to achieve its stated objectives thus far. Available evidence suggests that a strategy of immigration control that overwhelmingly emphasizes border enforcement and short-changes interior (especially workplace) enforcement has caused illegal entries to be re…
Controlling immigration
Focusing on the major industrialized democracies this volume presents a systematic, comparative study of immigration policy and policy outcomes in the profiled nations for which data is available.
Huntington and Hispanics
Raul Yzaguirre, Roberto Suro, Fouad Ajami, Roger Daniels, Tamar Jacoby, Patrick Buchanan, Ricardo Hausmann, Bruce E. Wright, Daniel T. Griswold, Jon Lindsay, Wayne Cornelius, Edward Lopez Jr., , Gary Orfield, Roger Geertz Gonzalez, Minxin Pei, Huntington and Hispanics, Foreign Policy, No. 142 (May - Jun., 2004), pp. 4+6+8-10+12-13+84-91
The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States
Using recent data from southern California and Mexico, we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of Mexican migrants to the United States since 1970 has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants are more likely to settle permanently in the United States, to have higher proportions of females, to be younger, to have more education, to be increasingly likely to originate in southern Mexico and the Mexico City metrop…
Subnational Politics and Democratization in Mexico
Death at the Border
This article assesses the efficacy of the strategy of immigration control implemented by the US government since 1993 in reducing illegal entry attempts, and documents some of the unintended consequences of this strategy, especially a sharp increase in mortality among unauthorized migrants along certain segments of the Mexico-US border. The available data suggest that the current strategy of border enforcement has resulted in rechanneling flows o…
Blind spots in democratization
This article argues that Mexico, after nearly seven decades of highly centralized, presidentialist rule, is moving toward a political system in which power is contested actively and continuously between centre and periphery. State governors and other sub‐national political actors have become more assertive in national politics, and they have greater financial resources under their control, due to fiscal decentralization. Now operating in an incre…
Subnational Politics and Democratization in Mexico (U.S.-Mexico Contemporary Perspectives Series, 13)
The transformation of rural Mexico
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Immigrants and Refugees
Political Reformism in Mexico
Do political reforms unleash the forces of fundamental change? Or do they alleviate the pressures for change? Posing these questions, Morris explores the historical ability of Mexico's one-party-dominant, authoritarian regime to weather frequent periods of political and economic crisis, as well as its potential for surviving into the coming century. Part 1 of the book traces Mexico's contemporary political crisis and the efforts of President Migu…
Mexico's Delayed Democratization
Transforming State-Society Relations in Mexico. The National Solidarity Strategy
The Uncertain Connection
The Uncertain Connection
Will a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) decrease Mexican migration to the United States, as the U.S. and Mexican governments assert, or increase migration beyond the movement that would otherwise occur, as NAFTA critics allege? This article argues that it is easy to overestimate the additional emigration from rural Mexico owing to NAFTA-related economic restructuring in Mexico. The available evidence suggests four major reasons why Mex…
The ‘New’ Immigration and the Politics of Cultural Diversity in the United States and Japan
Certain parallels between the recent experience of Japan and that of the United States with immigration from Third World countries are increasingly evident. In this discussion, I shall focus on these key similarities rather than the obvious differences between the two countries, in terms of culture, economy, political system, and 'immigration profile'." Aspects considered include the structural nature of the demand for foreign labor, the composit…
Death at the Border
This article assesses the efficacy of the strategy of immigration control implemented by the US government since 1993 in reducing illegal entry attempts, and documents some of the unintended consequences of this strategy, especially a sharp increase in mortality among unauthorized migrants along certain segments of the Mexico-US border. The available data suggest that the current strategy of border enforcement has resulted in rechanneling flows o…
Immigration and Politics
With nearly one in ten residents of advanced industrialized states now an immigrant, international migration has become a fundamental driver of social, economic, and political change. We review alternative models of migratory behavior (which emphasize structural factors largely beyond states' control) as well as models of immigration policy making that seek to explain the gaps between stated policy and actual outcomes. Some scholars attempt to ex…
Controlling 'Unwanted' Immigration
This paper evaluates the strategy for controlling “unwanted” immigration that has been implemented by the U.S. government since 1993, and suggests explanations for the failure of that strategy to achieve its stated objectives thus far. Available evidence suggests that a strategy of immigration control that overwhelmingly emphasizes border enforcement and short-changes interior (especially workplace) enforcement has caused illegal entries to be re…
Controlling immigration
Focusing on the major industrialized democracies this volume presents a systematic, comparative study of immigration policy and policy outcomes in the profiled nations for which data is available.
Does border enforcement deter unauthorized immigration? The case of Mexican migration to the United States of America
This paper asks whether the migration decisions of unauthorized Mexican immigrants to the USA have been influenced by stronger US border enforcement efforts since 1993 that have sharply increased the physical risk and financial cost of illegal immigration. These measures were supposed to have decreased the probability of successful entry, thereby lowering the expected benefits of migration. We carried out a logistic regression analysis of data fr…
Urbanization and Political Demand Making
This paper investigates the proposition that rapid urbanization produces significant changes in the kinds, volume, and intensity of demand making aimed at local and national governments, leading to political system "overload" and pressure for major shifts in resource allocation. Drawing upon data gathered among low-income migrants to Mexico City and other Latin American cities, the paper analyzes the process through which objective needs are conv…
Urbanization as an Agent in Latin American Political Instability
A large descriptive and conjectural literature has evolved during the past decade suggesting that rapid urbanization-conceived primarily as a massive demographic shift from country to city-constitutes an important agent of political instability in much of Latin America, favoring the growth of alienation and radicalism. This effect is frequently attributed to the frustration of migrant expectations for economic improvement and social mobility in t…
Mexican immigrants and the utilization of U.S. health services
Interviewing Undocumented Immigrants
Wayne A. Cornelius, Interviewing Undocumented Immigrants: Methodological Reflections Based on Fieldwork in Mexico and the U.S., The International Migration Review, Vol. 16, No. 2, Special Issue: Theory and Methods in Migration and Ethnic Research (Summer, 1982), pp. 378-411
Subnational Politics and Democratization in Mexico (U.S.-Mexico Contemporary Perspectives Series, 13)
Impacts of the 1986 US Immigration Law on Emigration from Rural Mexican Sending Communities
From the perspective of traditional labor-exporting communities in rural Mexico this article examines how the 1986 US Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) has affected perceptions of the US labor market the propensity to migrate settlement patterns in the US and the economies of migrant families and their home communities. The analysis draws upon sample survey interviews conducted in 1988-1989 in 3 communities located in the states of Jalisc…
Blind spots in democratization
This article argues that Mexico, after nearly seven decades of highly centralized, presidentialist rule, is moving toward a political system in which power is contested actively and continuously between centre and periphery. State governors and other sub‐national political actors have become more assertive in national politics, and they have greater financial resources under their control, due to fiscal decentralization. Now operating in an incre…
Interviewing Undocumented Immigrants
This article discusses data collection methods and basic issues of research strategy in field studies of unapprehended illegal immigrants living in the United States. It suggests ways to increase the reliability and validity of interview responses. Necessary modifications in format and style of interviews are described. An annotated bibiliography of recent field studies of undocumented immigrants is provided
Immigrant Voting in Home-Country Elections
Despite widespread interest in the effects of expanding expatriate Mexicans' ability to vote in the 2006 Mexican presidential election, no systematic estimates of potential participation currently exist. Applying logistic regression techniques to 2001 Los Angeles County Mexican Immigrant Residency Status Survey data and 2002 Current Population Survey data, we find that 125,000 to 360,000 (1.5–4.2 percent of ) expatriate Mexican migrants residing …
A Qualitative View of Drug Use Behaviors of Mexican Male Injection Drug Users Deported from the United States
Deportees are a hidden yet highly vulnerable and numerous population. Significantly, little data exists about the substance use and deportation experiences of Mexicans deported from the United States. This pilot qualitative study describes illicit drug use behaviors among 24 Mexico-born male injection drug users (IDUs), ≥ 18 years old, residing in Tijuana, Mexico who self-identified as deportees from the United States. In-person interviews were c…
The Political Economy of Mexico under De la Madrid
Este artículo describe y analiza la estructura política de la administración del Presidente Miguel de la Madrid en respuesta a la crisis económica de los 80 en México. La estrategia económica y política de la administración para el período de 1984 hasta 1988 es presentada en términos de los resultados obtenidos hasta la fecha y las restricciones externas. Se analizan las posibilidades para la paz social, la recuperación económica, y la estabilida…
The Uncertain Connection
Will a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) decrease Mexican migration to the United States, as the U.S. and Mexican governments assert, or increase migration beyond the movement that would otherwise occur, as NAFTA critics allege? This article argues that it is easy to overestimate the additional emigration from rural Mexico owing to NAFTA-related economic restructuring in Mexico. The available evidence suggests four major reasons why Mex…
The Uncertain Connection
Mexico
Mexico:Salinas and the PRI at the Crossroads Wayne A. Cornelius (bio) Is recent Mexican political history repeating itself? President Miguel de la Madrid began his six-year term in 1982 with a burst of political reformism. In the first half of 1983, his government strictly adhered to a policy of recognizing opposition-party victories in municipal elections, wherever they occurred. This resulted in a string of victories by the conservative Nationa…
Political Reformism in Mexico
Do political reforms unleash the forces of fundamental change? Or do they alleviate the pressures for change? Posing these questions, Morris explores the historical ability of Mexico's one-party-dominant, authoritarian regime to weather frequent periods of political and economic crisis, as well as its potential for surviving into the coming century. Part 1 of the book traces Mexico's contemporary political crisis and the efforts of President Migu…
Subnational immigration policymaking in the United States
This article explores the role of restrictive issue entrepreneurs in furthering immigration federalism in the United States. We define such entrepreneurs as political actors who promote restrictions on immigration to get votes and enhance their own political careers. Research has identified the variables that most strongly predict the passage of immigration-related legislation at the state and local levels, but less understood are the actual mech…
Huntington and Hispanics
Raul Yzaguirre, Roberto Suro, Fouad Ajami, Roger Daniels, Tamar Jacoby, Patrick Buchanan, Ricardo Hausmann, Bruce E. Wright, Daniel T. Griswold, Jon Lindsay, Wayne Cornelius, Edward Lopez Jr., , Gary Orfield, Roger Geertz Gonzalez, Minxin Pei, Huntington and Hispanics, Foreign Policy, No. 142 (May - Jun., 2004), pp. 4+6+8-10+12-13+84-91
Mexico's Delayed Democratization
The ‘New’ Immigration and the Politics of Cultural Diversity in the United States and Japan
Certain parallels between the recent experience of Japan and that of the United States with immigration from Third World countries are increasingly evident. In this discussion, I shall focus on these key similarities rather than the obvious differences between the two countries, in terms of culture, economy, political system, and 'immigration profile'." Aspects considered include the structural nature of the demand for foreign labor, the composit…
The Reagan Administration's Proposals for a New U.S. Immigration Policy
The Reagan Administration's attempt to grapple with the complex and emotional issues surrounding the immigration policy of the United States has yielded a set of proposals which essentially reaffirm policies advocated by the Ford and Carter Administrations, while adding some new elements tailored to the concerns of various groups within the Reagan Administration's support base. Staunch law-and-order advocates, many of whom see un? documented immi…
Urbanization as an Agent in Latin American Political Instability
A large descriptive and conjectural literature has evolved during the past decade suggesting that rapid urbanization-conceived primarily as a massive demographic shift from country to city-constitutes an important agent of political instability in much of Latin America, favoring the growth of alienation and radicalism. This effect is frequently attributed to the frustration of migrant expectations for economic improvement and social mobility in t…
Urbanización y demandas políticas. Participación política entre migrantes pobres en las ciudades latinoamericanas
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Urbanization and Political Demand Making
This paper investigates the proposition that rapid urbanization produces significant changes in the kinds, volume, and intensity of demand making aimed at local and national governments, leading to political system "overload" and pressure for major shifts in resource allocation. Drawing upon data gathered among low-income migrants to Mexico City and other Latin American cities, the paper analyzes the process through which objective needs are conv…
Politics and the migrant poor in Mexico City
Anthropological Perspectives on Latin American Urbanization
Politics and the Migrant Poor in Mexico City
Politics and the Migrant Poor in Mexico City
Quantitative Social Science Research on Latin America
Urbanization and Inequality
Latin American Urban Research, Volume V
Politics and the Migrant Poor in Mexico City
Politics and the Migrant Poor in México City
Politics and the Migrant Poor in Mexico City
Politics and the Migrant Poor in Mexico City
Metropolitan Latin America
Metropolitan Latin America
The Reagan Administration's Proposals for a New U.S. Immigration Policy
Wayne A. Cornelius, The Reagan Administration's Proposals for a New U.S. Immigration Policy: An Assessment of Potential Effects, The International Migration Review, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Winter, 1981), pp. 769-778
The Reagan Administration's Proposals for a New U.S. Immigration Policy
The Reagan Administration's attempt to grapple with the complex and emotional issues surrounding the immigration policy of the United States has yielded a set of proposals which essentially reaffirm policies advocated by the Ford and Carter Administrations, while adding some new elements tailored to the concerns of various groups within the Reagan Administration's support base. Staunch law-and-order advocates, many of whom see un? documented immi…
Interviewing Undocumented Immigrants
This article discusses data collection methods and basic issues of research strategy in field studies of unapprehended illegal immigrants living in the United States. It suggests ways to increase the reliability and validity of interview responses. Necessary modifications in format and style of interviews are described. An annotated bibiliography of recent field studies of undocumented immigrants is provided
Interviewing Undocumented Immigrants
Wayne A. Cornelius, Interviewing Undocumented Immigrants: Methodological Reflections Based on Fieldwork in Mexico and the U.S., The International Migration Review, Vol. 16, No. 2, Special Issue: Theory and Methods in Migration and Ethnic Research (Summer, 1982), pp. 378-411
American's New Immigration Law
America's New Immigration Law
The Political Economy of Mexico under De la Madrid
Este artículo describe y analiza la estructura política de la administración del Presidente Miguel de la Madrid en respuesta a la crisis económica de los 80 en México. La estrategia económica y política de la administración para el período de 1984 hasta 1988 es presentada en términos de los resultados obtenidos hasta la fecha y las restricciones externas. Se analizan las posibilidades para la paz social, la recuperación económica, y la estabilida…
Mexican immigrants and the utilization of U.S. health services
Impacts of the 1986 US Immigration Law on Emigration from Rural Mexican Sending Communities
From the perspective of traditional labor-exporting communities in rural Mexico this article examines how the 1986 US Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) has affected perceptions of the US labor market the propensity to migrate settlement patterns in the US and the economies of migrant families and their home communities. The analysis draws upon sample survey interviews conducted in 1988-1989 in 3 communities located in the states of Jalisc…
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