The Effects of Receiving Country Policies on Migration Flows by Sergio Díaz-Briquets & Sidney Weintraub

Author:Sergio Díaz-Briquets & Sidney Weintraub [Díaz-Briquets, Sergio & Weintraub, Sidney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, General
ISBN: 9781000244434
Google: HU6fDwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 52781147
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1991-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Mean Number of Trips to the U.S. (st. deviation) 4.6 (57) 9.2 (8.9)

Mean Duration of Trips, in Months (st. deviation) 19 (26) 10 (16)

Source: Village household surveys, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, 1988–89.

Where People Go. Internal migration is not very important in either of these migrant circuits, although it is relatively more common for people from Las Animas. In 1988, 35 people out of the entire village sample of 1,293 in Las Animas, lived and worked in other parts of Mexico. Only two people in the sample from Gomez were reported as living outside of the municipio, but still in Mexico. These figures once again highlight the key role of transnational labor migration in these communities.

Where people live in the United States can play an important role in shaping their experience as immigrant workers. Locations vary according to the range of existing occupations, industrial structure, economic base, (un)employment rates, concentration of immigrants and so on. Although this is not an analysis of local labor markets, I want to stress the difference between the spatial pattern of U.S. migration and employment in these two circuits.

Table 7 presents a distribution of people by the destination of their migration to the United States for each village in 1988. It shows that the Gomez Farías migrant circuit is much more concentrated in space than the Animeño circuit. As noted above, the Gomeño circuit can also be said to be more concentrated in terms of time. People from Gomez Farías spend more time in the same place(s) with each other than people in the Las Animas circuit, who are more spread out in time and space. This is a relative difference, since Animeños do see each other and keep in touch. The geographic diversity of the Animeño circuit is related to the way migrants in this circuit have been incorporated—and have incorporated themselves—into U.S. labor markets.

Table 7 Distribution of People by Primary Destinations in the United States, 1988: A Comparison of Las Animas and Gomez Farias

Destination (percentages) Las Animas (N = 268) Gomez Farias (N = 251)

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