An Evaluation of International Migration Theory
The North American Case
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4121702 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D S Massey (0000-0002-0109-522X), Joaquín Arango, Graeme Hugo, Ali Kouaouci, Adela Pellegrino, J Edward Taylor (0000-0002-5987-8112) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 699 |
| Publication date | 1994-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population and Development Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0098-7921 • E-ISSN: 1728-4457 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2137660 |
| OpenAlex | W2001961447 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 219 |
| References cited | 111 |
The article reviews empirical studies of international migration within the North American migratory system in order to evaluate the various theories that seek to explain the initiation and perpetuation of international movement. The review uncovers significant support for all theories suggesting that they constitute complementary rather than competing explanations of migration. One criticism is that far too much research is focused on Mexico whose unique relationship to the United States may make it unrepresentative of broader patterns and trends in migration. After discussing salient gaps in the research record and outlining promising directions for future study the article attempts to construct a comprehensive model for understanding immigration into North America. (SUMMARY IN FRE AND SPA) (EXCERPT)
Economic geography · Economics · Geography · Political science · Regional science · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Marital Status, Cohabitation and Intentions of Workers to Move to Less Developed Areas
African Immigrants in France in the Context of the Growing Politicization of the Migration Problem
Social Inequality and Social Mobility
Mobility and Immobility in a Transnational Context
Migratory patterns and population redistribution in China’s Zhoushan Archipelago in the context of rapid urbanization
Robustness and Resilience across Scales
Motores de la emigración venezolana a España 1998-2015
Growth in High-Skilled Mexican Migration Northward
Colombian International Migration
Advocating for Structural Change? Exploring the Advocacy Activities of Immigrant-Serving Organizations in an Unwelcoming Policy Context
Wild geese fathers' and a globalised family strategy for education in Korea
Social development and transnational households
Path Dependency and Adaptation
Saberes que configuran trayectorias migratorias
La migración internacional y las condiciones de vida
Transnational Body Projects
North African Labour Flows and the Euro-Med Partnership
Cost of Being a Mexican Immigrant and Being a Mexican Non-Citizen in California and Texas
Determinants of Employment of Recently Arrived Mexican Immigrant Wives
Social capital and migration
Foreign Direct Investment and International Migration to Dutch Cities
Gendered Migrant Social Capital
Childhood predictors of late‐life diabetes
Community Organization, Migration, and Remittances in Oaxaca
L'inégalité, la pauvreté et l'intégration économique des immigrés au Canada
(Re)producing Salvadoran Transnational Geographies
Urban refugee children's integration through a spatial lens
Understanding Immigration
Transmigranten“ als ein Typ von Arbeitswanderern in pluri-lokalen sozialen Räumen
Population‐Scale Kinship Networks
Migration and Integration in a Post-Pandemic World
Immigrants and Their International Money Flows
Illegal Migration from Mexico to the United States
La migración venezolana en Santiago de Chile
Developmental Idealism
How Maquiladora Industries Contribute to Mexico-U.S. Labor Migration
Emigration from Two Labor Frontier Nations
Legal status, gender and employment among Salvadorans in the US
Mapping migration studies
The ripple effects of deportations in Honduras
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Glitchy transnationalism
Currents and eddies
Hukou and non-hukou migrations in China
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Rural–urban patterns of disability
Gender and chain migration
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Human Capital Flight in Ecowas Subregion
The brain drain of health care professionals from sub-Saharan Africa
International marriages in South Korea
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Periodismo de migraciones
Estimated Numbers of Men and Women Infected with HIV/Aids in Tijuana, Mexico
Labour‐market participation of Asian Indian immigrant women in the greater Kansas City Metropolitan Area, USA
(Re)constructing Identities
The Influence of Migration on Origin Communities
Assibilation of /-r/ and migration among Mexicans
The Vermont–Québec Border Region
Return migration predictors for undocumented Mexican immigrants living in Dallas
More social than capital
The role of aspirations in domestic and international migration
Negotiating survival
‘I left because…’
Selective cosmopolitans’
Ethno-Caste influences on migration rates and destinations
Self-selection among undocumented immigrants from Mexico
HIV Prevalence and Correlates of Receptive Needle Sharing Among Injection Drug Users in the Mexican-U.S. Border City of Tijuana
The healthy migrant theory
Links between immigration and social inequality in education
The Culture of Migration in Southern Mexico
Undocumented Migration to the United States
Merchants of Labor
The new chosen people
Internal migration in developing countries
Competitive ethnic relations
Labor, Class, and the International System
City on the Edge
Undocumented Mexico—U.S. Migration and the Returns to Households in Rural Mexico
Social Structure, Household Strategies, and the Cumulative Causation of Migration
The structure of scientific revolutions
Latin Journey
By the Sweat of Their Brow, Mexican Immigrant Labor in the United States, 1900-1940
From Sweden to America
Life in a Mexican village
The Costs and Returns of Human Migration
Determinants Of Emigration From Mexico, Central America, And The Caribbean
The Caribbean Exodus
Illegal Aliens
Return to Aztlan
Immigrant America
Immigration and the Work Force
Chain Migration Ethnic Neighborhood Formation and Social Networks
Assimilation, Changes in Cohort Quality, and the Earnings of Immigrants
The Global City
The Mobility of Labor and Capital
The Role of Migrant Stock and Lagged Migration in the Settlement Patterns of Nineteenth Century Immigrants
Some Economic Aspects of Puerto Rican Migration to the United States
Theories of International Migration
Mexican Migration to the United States
Economic Dualism
Skeptical Noises about the Immigration Multiplier
Illegal Aliens in the United States Labor Market
Long-term Immigration to the United States
The Migratory Impact of Minimum Wage Legislation
Illegal Migration from Mexico to the United States
Push/Pull in Recent Mexican Migration to the U.S
The Net Economic Incentive for Illegal Mexican Migration
International and Internal Migration Decision Making
Puerto Rican Migration and Occupational Selectivity, 1982–1981
Economic Development
Do Undocumented Migrants Earn Lower Wages than Legal Immigrants? New Evidence from Mexico
Agricultural Development and Emigration
Migration, Remittances and Development
Changes in the Characteristics of Puerto Rican Migrants from 1955 to 1980
Kinship Networks in the Migration Process
The Effect of Maquiladora Employment on the Monthly Flow of Mexican Undocumented Immigration to the U.S., 1978–1982
The long-term consequences of a temporary worker program
Migradollars
Hispanics in the Labor Force
Migracion en el Occidente de Mexico
An Urban World
New Estimates of Undocumented Mexican Migration and the Probability of Apprehension
An interactive contextual model of migration in Ilocos Norte, the Philippines
Playing Cat and Mouse at the U.S.-Mexican Border
Immigrant Recruitment into the Labor Force
U. S. Investment and Immigration from the Caribbean
The Effect of Americanization on the Earnings of Foreign-born Men
Economic Opportunity and the Responses of “Old” and “New” Migrants to the United States
Transients and Settlers
Migration, Development and Remittances in Rural Mexico
Reintegration of Circulating Families in Southwestern Puerto Rico
U.S.-Mexico Relations
The increasing urbanization thesis-did “new immigrants” to the United States have a particular fondness for urban life
The role of nationality-specific characteristics on the settlement patterns of late nineteenth century immigrants
Post-1965 Asian Immigrants
The Earnings of White and Coloured Male Immigrants in Britain
Migration Incentives, Migration Types
Remittances and Inequality
The Migrant Syndrome
Taxonomies of Institutional Structure
The condition of postmodernity
Family and Personal Networks in International Migration
A Theory of Dual Labor Markets with Application to Industrial Policy, Discrimination and Keynesian Unemployment
The Enclave and the Entrants
Limits of Ethnic Solidarity in the Enclave Economy
Causes of Salvadoran Migration to the United States
The World City Hypothesis
The Settlement Process Among Mexican Migrants to the United States
Regional and Sectoral Development in Mexico as Alternatives to Migration
Mexican Migration and the Social Space of Postmodernism
Family Migration in a Developing Country
Agrarian Structure and Labor Mobility in Rural Mexico
Patterns of Undocumented Migration
Illegal Migration and US Immigration Reform
Linked Migration Systems
Geography and Ethnic Pluralism
Immigration, Trade, and the Labor Market
An Empirical Study of Labor Market Segmentation
The Earnings of Male Hispanic Immigrants in the United States
Wage-Labor Migration and the Household in a Mexican Town
Americas
Politics in Mexico
The Dominican Republic
America at Century's End
The Internationalization of Kinship and the Feminization of Caribbean Migration
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Settlers and Sojourners
Social Organizational Obstacles to Capital Accumulation Among Returning Migrants
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| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 191 |