America's Immigration Policy Fiasco
Learning from Past Mistakes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9684732 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D S Massey (0000-0002-0109-522X, New York Times, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 142 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 5-15 |
| Publication date | 2013-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Daedalus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/daed_a_00215 |
| PMID | 25400290 |
| PMCID | PMC4231485 |
| OpenAlex | W2036483268 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
| References cited | 6 |
In this essay I discuss how and why U.S. policies intended to stop Latin American immigration to the United States not only failed, but proved counterproductive by ultimately accelerating the rate of both documented and undocumented migration from Mexico and Central America to the United States. As a result, the Latino population grew much faster than demographers had originally projected and the undocumented population grew to an unprecedented size. Mass illegality is now the greatest barrier to the successful integration of Latinos, and a pathway to legalization represents a critical policy challenge. If U.S. policy-makers wish to avoid the failures of the past, they must shift from a goal of immigration suppression to one of immigration management within an increasingly integrated North American market
Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Immigration · Immigration policy · Immigration reform · Latin Americans · Legalization · Mass migration · Political economy · Political science · Population · Sociology · Demography · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
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| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,38 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 31 |