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Title

The current situation in Mexican immigration / Georges Vernez, David Ronfeldt.

Author

Vernez, Georges.

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 1991.

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Additional Authors

• Ronfeldt, David F.
• Rand Corporation.
• Ford Foundation

Description

iii, 5 p.; 28 cm.

Summary

By 1988, the Mexican-origin population of the United States had grown to 12.1 million, largely from recent sharp increases in immigration. The policy concerns raised by this phenomenon have been influenced by some perceptions that available research contradicts. Today most Mexican immigrants come to stay, about half are female, and they have increasingly less schooling compared with the native-born workers, and, across generations, their language and political assimilation is proceeding well. They put greater demands on education than on other public services. However, the Mexican-origin population affects the economy and public services more and differently in the areas where it is concentrated, primarily in the western United States and large urban areas. Further, the recent legalization of 2.3 million Mexican immigrants can be expected to increase the demand on public services, especially in those areas.

Subject

• Mexicans > United States
• United States > Emigration and immigration
• Mexico > Emigration and immigration

Note

• "R-4099-FF."
• "Supported by the Ford Foundation."
• "Reprinted from Science, volume 251, 8 March 1991, pp. 1189-1193"--P. 1.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 5).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0833011812

OCLC

• 24515411
• SCSB-10472415

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library