The Settlement Process Among Mexican Migrants to the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4875503 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D S Massey (0000-0002-0109-522X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 670 |
| Publication date | 1986-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2095492 |
| OpenAlex | W2067822410 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 119 |
| References cited | 17 |
This report examines the process of integration and settlement among Mexican migrants to the United States using data specially collected from four Mexican sending communities. These data indicate that as migrants accumulate experience in the United States social and economic ties are formed which progressively increase the likelihood of U.S. settlement. Over time migrants bring family members abroad make new friends establish institutional connections and obtain more stable better paying jobs. As a result less money is remitted home to Mexico and more is spent in the United States. These trends give rise to a steady cumulative increase in the probability of U.S. settlement. (EXCERPT
Business · Demographic economics · Economics · Geography · Political science · Process (computing · Settlement (finance · Sociology · Computer Science · Latin American and Latino Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
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Theories of International Migration
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Immigrant Policy
The impact of labor mobility with fellow townsmen on the wages of rural migrants
Segregación residencial de los inmigrantes nicaragüenses en costa rica en 2000
Immigrants’ employment strategies and their economic welfare
Determinants of Savings, Remittances, and Spending Patterns among U.S. Migrants in Four Mexican Communities
Understanding Mexican Migration to the United States
Continuities in Transnational Migration
An Evaluation of International Migration Theory
Social Capital and the Wages of Mexican Migrants
Self-Selection and International Migration
Economic Crisis and Migration
Migration and children in China
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Collective Versus Mass Behavior
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Household strategies in the face of resource scarcity in coastal Ghana
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship
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Cultural capital and residential mobility
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Return to Aztlan
History and Trends in U.S. Bound Migration from a Mexican Town
Patterns of U.S. Migration from a Mexican Sending Community
Source Regions and Composition of Illegal Mexican Immigration to California
U.S. Immigration
The Social Organization of Mexican Migration to the United States
Undocumented Migration from Mexico
The Migrant Syndrome
The Role of Households in International Migration and the Case of U. S. -Bound Migration from the Dominican Republic
Birds of Passage
The Use of Transfer Payments by Immigrants
Immigrants, Taxes, and Welfare in the United States
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| Unique citing works | 119 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,05 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 2025 (39) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 117 |