Unintended Consequences of US Immigration Policy
Explaining the Post-1965 Surge from Latin America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4122065 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D S Massey (0000-0002-0109-522X, Princeton University), Karen A Pren (0000-0001-7724-8192, Asociación Mexicana de Psicología y Desarrollo Comunitario) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-29 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population and Development Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0098-7921 • E-ISSN: 1728-4457 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2012.00470.x |
| PMID | 22833862 |
| OpenAlex | W2076147879 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 225 |
| References cited | 28 |
Immigration reforms in the United States initiated in the 1960s are widely thought to have opened the door to mass immigration from Asia and Latin America by eliminating past discriminatory policies. While this may be true for Asians, it is not the case for Latin Americans, who faced more restrictions to legal migration after 1965 than before. The boom in Latin American migration occurred in spite of rather than because of changes in US immigration law. In this article we describe how restrictions placed on the legal entry of Latin Americans, and especially Mexicans, set off a chain of events that in the ensuing decades had the paradoxical effect of producing more rather than fewer Latino immigrants. We offer an explanation for how and why Latinos in the United States, in just 40 years, increased from 9.6 million people and 5 percent of the population to 51 million people and 16 percent of the population, and why so many are now present without authorization
Boom · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Immigration · Immigration law · Immigration policy · Latin Americans · Mass migration · Political science · Population · Sociology · Unintended consequences · Demography · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
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| Unique citing works | 225 |
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| Citations per year | 16,07 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 210 |