Citation:
Garip, Filiz. 2011. “Discovering Diverse Mechanisms of Migration: The Mexico-U.S. Stream from 1970 to 2000”. Copy at http://www.tinyurl.com/y6fcxjwl
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Date Published:
Dec 1, 2011Abstract:
Migrants to the United States are a diverse population. This diversity, captured in various migration theories, is overlooked in empirical applications that describe a typical narrative for an average migrant. Using the Mexican Migration Project data from about 17,000 first-time migrants between 1970 and 2000, this study employs cluster analysis to identify four types of migrants with distinct configurations of characteristics. Each migrant type corresponds to a specific theoretical account, and becomes prevalent in a specific period, depending on the economic, social and political conditions. Strikingly, each migrant type also becomes prevalent around the period in which its corresponding theory is developed.