The social organization of Mexican migration to the United States

In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Heft 487, S. 102-113

Abstract

Migration between Mexico and the USA is supported by social networks that link sending communities with specific work sites in the USA. Using a combination of ethnographic and survey methods, the article shows how these networks develop and mature and how they facilitate the migrant enterprise until, overtime, migration becomes self-sustaining