International Migration In Mexico Research Articles

Migración internacional y trabajo en México: un análisis contemporáneo

Migration, an undeniable driver for development according to the UN's Agenda 2030, plays a pivotal role in Mexico, serving as a point of origin, transit, and destination for migrants. This article presents a detailed analysis of international migration in Mexico with a focus on its impact on economic activity. Utilizing microdata from the National Occupation and Employment Survey (ENOE) for the third quarter of 2023, comprising a sample of 150,449 households, various aspects are explored, from migrants' origins to their sociodemographic profile and geographical distribution. Furthermore, an innovative methodology from CEPAL (2023) is employed to estimate the contribution to the Gross Domestic Product by migratory origin and sector of activity of international migrants in Mexico. This approach provides a deep and updated understanding of migration in Mexico, emphasizing its significance for the national economic dynamics and its role in shaping the country's labor and business landscape. The findings offer valuable insights for policy formulation and understanding the economic implications of migration.

Magical legalism: human rights practitioners and undocumented migrants in Mexico

ABSTRACTIn the context of the war on drugs, undocumented international migration in Mexico is facing a serious human rights crisis. Each year, hundreds of thousands of migrants, above all from Central America, cross Mexico to reach the United States. Through their journey they risk extortion, kidnap, ill treatment, torture, forced disappearance, forced labour, sexual abuses, and death. Ironically, in the last few years, migrants’ rights has become a profession for many people. Never before have there been so many rights-based organisations and human rights practitioners in Mexico working in the promotion and defence of migrants’ rights. This article is a sociologically driven analysis that seeks to critically examine the role of human rights organisations and practitioners working in the field of transmigrants’ rights in Mexico. The article analyses how human rights practitioners and rights-based organisations talk about the suffering and violence routinely experienced by transmigrants in Mexico; and identifies the most visible implications of that discourse. It argues that legalism over-dominates practitioners’ work and agendas: practitioners address the problem of undocumented migration through a narrow legalistic lens that ignores or fails to challenge the wider political and social conditions that make the abuses possible in the first place.

What Do We Mean When We Talk About the “Securitization” of International Migration in Mexico? A Critique

Undocumented international migration in Mexico is facing a serious human rights crisis. Each year, hundreds of thousands of migrants, above all from Central America, cross Mexico to reach the United States. Their journey risks extortion, kidnap, torture, disappearance, and death. For activists and civil society organizations, this crisis is explained by what they call the securitization of Mexico's migration policy. By “securitization,” they mean a policy imposed on Mexico by the United States that treats migrants as a security threat. This article challenges this interpretation, arguing that the theory of securitization is insufficient to understand the many factors that make possible the systematic violence of the human rights of migrants in transit in Mexico.

Organizaciones de la sociedad civil y la “securitización” de la migración internacional indocumentada en México

La migración internacional indocumentada en México enfrenta una grave crisis de derechos humanos. Cada año, cientos de miles de personas migrantes, principalmente de Centroamérica, atraviesan México para llegar a Estados Unidos. Su trayecto está caracterizado por extorsiones, secuestros, tortura, desapariciones y muerte. Para activistas y organismos de la sociedad civil, esta crisis se explica por lo que denominan “securitización” de la política migratoria. Por “securitización” entienden una política impuesta a México por Estados Unidos que ve en los migrantes una amenaza a la seguridad. Este artículo reta esta interpretación. El argumento es que la teoría de la securitización es insuficiente para entender los múltiples factores que hacen posible la violación sistemática de los derechos humanos de los migrantes en tránsito.

Internal and international migration in Mexico: 1995–2000

Using micro data from Mexico and US 2000 population censuses and following a multi-choice variant of Roy's (1951) model, this article pools into one model the determinants of internal and international migration in México, while paying explicit attention to the potential problem of self-selection. The results reveal that ignoring multiple destinations in the migration decision might lead to erroneous inferences about the determinants of migration and the type of selection. After controlling for wage differences, the results suggest that single adult men with low schooling levels tend to migrate to the US while married women and men with higher levels of schooling tend to migrate within Mexico. We also found that there are strong differences between domestic and international social networks.

Book Review: Series on Development and International Migration in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean Basin

Book Review: Series on Development and International Migration in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean Basin

Series on Development and International Migration in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean Basin.

Series on Development and International Migration in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean Basin.

Theoretical Approaches to Mexican Wage Labor Migration

The author reviews theoretical approaches to the study of both internal and international migration in Mexico. (ANNOTATION)