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What's New
| October 2011 |
The new MMP134 database is here!
The Mexican Migration Project is pleased to make available to the public its new database: MMP134.
The MMP134 database has 134 communities, which includes the original 128 communities (MMP128) plus 6 new additional communities: 2 from San Luis Potosí, 3 from Puebla, and one from Guanajuato.
MMP134 has information on 21,522 Mexican households, 957 U.S. households, and individual-level data on 144,258 persons. These data contain information on 7,398 household heads with migration experience to the U.S. and information on 48 household heads with Canadian migration experience.
In addition, we have updated the following supplementary datafiles: COMMUN, NATLYEAR and NATLHIST. COMMUN file now includes 2010 census data from INEGI for all 134 communities. Both NATLYEAR and NATLHIST files contain data upto 2010 as well.
Data is availble in three formats: SAS, SPSS, & Stata through the OPR's archive.
Please email us citations to any books, journal articles, conference presentations, or working papers you have authored.
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| March 2010 |
The new MMP128 database is here!
The Mexican Migration Project is pleased to make available to the public its new database: MMP128.
The MMP128 database has 128 communities, which includes the original 124 communities (MMP124) plus 4 new additional communites, from YUCATAN state.
MMP128 has information on 20,553 Mexican households, 922 U.S. households, and individual-level data on 138,711 persons. These data contain information on 7,237 household heads with migration experience to the U.S. and information on 48 household heads with Canadian migration experience.
Data is availble in three formats: SAS, SPSS, & Stata through the OPR's archive.
Please email us citations to any books, journal articles, conference presentations, or working papers you have authored.
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| April 2009 |
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Detrás de la trama. Políticas migratorias entre México y Estados Unidos is the Spanish version for Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration. This books shows how U.S. immigration policies enacted between 1986-1996 -- largely for symbolic domestic political purposes -- harm the interests of Mexico, the United States, and the people who migrate between them. The costs have been high. The book documents how the massive expansion of border enforcement has wasted billions of dollars and hundreds of lives, yet has not deterred increasing numbers of undocumented immigrants from heading north. The authors also show how the new policies unleashed a host of unintended consequences: a shift away from seasonal, circular migration toward permanent settlement; the creation of a black market for Mexican labor; the transformation of Mexican immigration from a regional phenomenon into a broad social movement touching every region of the country; and even the lowering of wages for legal U.S. residents. What had been a relatively open and benign labor process before 1986 was transformed into an exploitative underground system of labor coercion, one that lowered wages and working conditions of undocumented migrants, legal immigrants, and American citizens alike.
Detrás de la trama offers specific proposals for repairing the damage. Rather than denying the reality of labor migration, the authors recommend regularizing it and working to manage it so as to promote economic development in Mexico, minimize costs and disruptions for the United States, and maximize benefits for all concerned. This book provides an essential "user's manual" for readers seeking a historical, theoretical, and substantive understanding of how U.S. policy on Mexican immigration evolved to its current dysfunctional state, as well as how it might be fixed
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| February 2008 |
Available in SPANISH only! |
In Braceros. Las miradas mexicana y estadounidense, Jorge Durand embraces 11 texts of Mexican and American authors published between 1942 y 1964. His objective is to offer materials not easily accessible to understand the Bracero Program, a key era for the Mexico-U.S. migration.
This anthology seeks to bring forth questions in order to explore new themes and problems around a crucial subject: the temporal workers. All the authors in this anthology agree that the Bracero Program represented an improvement to the "enganche" era. They also agree that this program meant an improvement in working conditions compared to "undocumented" who were not protected by the Mexican government and who do not have working contracts.
The situation in the bracero era was not panacea either and working conditions, food, health, and housing were always difficult. However, the situation of migrant workers fifty years ago was much better than the one undocumented workers face today. Thus, it is important to revise and analyze texts that may contribute to refrain from repeating mistakes and recover experiences which may contribute to formulate a new migratory policy to temporal workers. |
Beginning in the 1990s, immigrants to the United States increasingly bypassed traditional gateway cites such as Los Angeles and New York to settle in smaller towns and cities throughout the nation. With immigrant communities popping up in so many new places, questions about ethnic diversity and immigrant assimilation confront more and more Americans. New Faces in New Places, edited by distinguished sociologist Douglas Massey, explores today’s geography of immigration and examines the ways in which native-born Americans are dealing with their new neighbors.
New Faces in New Places illustrates the many ways that communities across the nation are reacting to the arrival of immigrant newcomers, and suggests that patterns and processes of assimilation in the twenty-first century may be quite different from those of the past. Enriched by perspectives from sociology, anthropology, and geography New Faces in New Places is essential reading for scholars of immigration and all those interested in learning the facts about new faces in new places in America.
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| January 2008 |
The new MMP118 database is here!
The Mexican Migration Project is pleased to make available to the public its new database: MMP118.
The MMP118 database has 118 communities, which includes the original 114 communities (MMP114) plus 4 new additional communites, from MORELOS state.
MMP118 has information on 18,804 Mexican households, 922 U.S. households, and individual-level data on 128,940 persons. These data contain information on 6,848 household heads with migration experience to the U.S. and information on 47 household heads with Canadian migration experience. In addition, the new 4 communities feature health questions pertaining to the household head and spouse.
Data is availble in three formats: SAS, SPSS, & Stata at the OPR's archive.
Please email us citations to any books, journal articles, conference presentations, or working papers you have authored.
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| August 2007 |
Supplementary files at the NATIONAL LEVEL are updated !
The Mexican Migration Project is pleased to make available its latest updates for the supplemental files at the national level: NATLYEAR and NATLHIST.
NATLYEAR is a longitudinal file containig several national-level indicators of macroeconomic conditions in the United States and Mexico since 1965.
NATLHIST, also a longitudinal file, contains selected indicators of Mexico-U.S. migration from 1900 through 2005.
Files are available in Excel, SAS, SPSS, and Stata. Click here to download their codebooks. |
| June 2007 |
The new MMP114 database is here!
The Mexican Migration Project is pleased to make available
to the public its new database: MMP114.
The MMP114 database has 114 communities, which includes
the original 107 communities (MMP107) plus 7 new additional
communites. The new 7 communities include 2 communities
from Michoacan, and 5 from Mexico state. In addition, starting
from community 110, we also measure migration to
Canada from household heads.
MMP114 has information on 18,081 Mexican households, 922
U.S. households, and individual-level data on 125,130 persons.
These data contain information on 6,705 household heads
with migration experience to the U.S. and information on
45 household heads with Canadian migration experience.
Data is now availble in three formats: SAS, SPSS, & Stata
at the OPR's
archive.
Please email us citations to any books, journal articles,
conference presentations, or working papers you have authored.
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| September, 2005 |
The new MMP107 database is here!
The Mexican Migration Project is pleased to make available to the public its new database: MMP107.
The MMP107 database has 107 communities, which includes the original 93 communities (MMP93) plus 14 new additional communites.
The new 14 communities include 3 communities from Tlaxcala, 7 from Veracruz, and 4 from Jalisco.
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| April, 2004 |
Jorge Durand elected a Foreign Associate of the U.S.
National Academy of Sciences.
Jorge Durand has been elected a Foreign Associate of the
U.S. National Academy of Sciences at its 141st meeting on
April 20, in recognition of his distinguished and continuing
achievements in original research.
He was one of 18 Foreign Associates elected worldwide and
across all disciplines. Election to membership is considered
one of the highest honors that can be accorded to a scientist.
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| April, 2004 |
The new MMP93 database is here!
The Mexican Migration Project is pleased to make available
to the public its new database: MMP93.
The MMP93 database has 93 communities, which includes the
original 71 communities (MMP71) plus the new additional 22
communites that have never been available to the public.
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| April, 2004 |
| The new MMP93 database is now available also at
the State Level!
Users can now download all the 93 communities at once, or
just the communities in one or more of the following States:
- Aguascalientes
- Baja California Norte
- Chihuahua
- Colima
- Durango
- Guanajuato
- Guerrero
- Hidalgo
- Jalisco
- Michoacán
- Nayarit
- Nuevo León
- Oaxaca
- Puebla
- San Luis Potosí
- Sinaloa
- Zacatecas
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