Explaining Urban Migration from Mexico City to the USA

Social Networks and Territorial Attachments

Bibliographic Data

ID9953908
AuthorsCristobal Mendoza (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana‐Iztapalapa), Cristóbal Mendoza Pérez (0000-0001-8694-6830, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume53
Issue5
Pages69-83
Publication date2013-04-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Migration (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7985 • E-ISSN: 1468-2435
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/imig.12050
OpenAlexW2089963189
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited24

Using a representative survey on a municipality in Mexico City, the article explores the relevance of both social networks and place attachments for US migration. By comparing households with and without migrants, the logistic regression models show that social networks make emigration more selective with respect “education”, but less selective regarding “sex” and “marital status”. These results shed new light on the mechanism through which social networks operate in urban settings. Even if a municipality that is very homogeneous in terms of poverty and employment opportunities, variations on the socio‐demographic profile of the would‐be emigrants to the USA are found depending on the household′s social networks. As for territorial variables, the general impression is one of placelessness, apart from attachment to the municipality, but here again social networks act as an intervening variable

Demographic economics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Emigration · Geography · Homogeneous · Logistic regression · Marital status · Population · Poverty · Sociology · Demography · Place Attachment and Urban Studies · Urban Transport and Accessibility · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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