![]() | ISBN: 978-0-9800560-1-3 $55.00 | |
| ISBN: 978-0-9800560-0-6 $24.50 | ||
| October 2008/250 pages Distributed for Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego | ||
Drawing on decades of fieldwork in a high-emigration town in central Mexico, as well as a thousand recent interviews, the authors chart the town's evolution from a source of short-term contract laborers during World War II to a present-day exporter of undocumented and legal migrants, many of whom now settle permanently in the US and have US-born children. They investigate how people-smuggling operates, whether border enforcement affects decisions to migrate, and migration's impact on family, health, and the hometown economy. Their work sheds important new light on debates central to international migration studies.