American Migrants Research Articles

How Have American Migration Patterns Changed in the COVID Era?

How Have American Migration Patterns Changed in the COVID Era?

The Impact of Migration on Smoking among Colombian Migrants

Background: Colombian migration globally has had many consequences. This study focuses solely on the smoking behavior of Colombian migrants. This study addresses how the act of international migration impacts the likelihood of smoking among Colombian migrants. Smoking has been found to be the leading cause of preventable death, and so it is a health risk for Colombian migrants. This study pertains to the communities sampled in Colombia, where the migrants originated. Methods: This study uses the Latin American Migration Project to address how migration impacts the smoking behavior of Colombian migrants. Using logit regression, the statistical analysis predicts the likelihood of smoking among Colombian migrants. This study compares the smoking behavior of current and former Colombian migrants, which is compared to that of Colombian non-migrants. Because current and former migrants were surveyed, the study is able to control for health selectivity. Results: After accounting for health selectivity, the study finds that migration, as measured by time abroad, is positively and significantly related with the smoking of migrants relative to non-migrants. Additionally, this study shows that former migrants are more likely to smoke than current migrants, providing support for the salmon effect. Conclusion: This study adds to the literature on smoking by studying an understudied group, Colombian migrants, and provides a better measure of the impact of migration on smoking behavior by accounting for health selectivity and the salmon bias. The findings are consistent with assimilation theory, as more time abroad is associated with negative health behaviors that are common in the culture of the receiving country, but the fact that such behaviors are harmful to the migrant is consistent with the immigrant health paradox.

Border surveillance: biometric technologies and personal data in Latin American migration

Border surveillance: biometric technologies and personal data in Latin American migration

Migración centro y sud americana de niñas, niños y adolescentes (NNA) en el Estado de México

Migration is becoming increasingly present in places that previously had little influx, such as the case of the State of Mexico in the municipalities of Toluca and Metepec. It has been the case because migratory routes and flows continue to increase and are the new ways of moving around the country. The purpose of this reflection is to give a historical and current overview of the Central and South American migration of children and adolescents, who have passed through Protection Office Shelter to Childs and Adolescents, belonging to the DIF system of the State of Mexico.

Impacts of the Relocation Program on Native American Migration and Fertility

This paper estimates the migratory and fertility effects of the federal Relocation Program, which attempted to move Native American individuals to urban areas under the promises of financial assistance and job training. I find the Relocation Program increased the Native American population in the target cities by more than 100,000 people. I also find that second- and third-generation Native American women living in cities have a 50 percent lower fertility rate than those living in areas with historically large Native American populations. These findings indicate that this program meaningfully shifted the spatial distribution of the Native American population.

Latin American Migration, Settler Colonialism, and the Unfinished Business of Canadian Mennonite Belonging

Latin American Migration, Settler Colonialism, and the Unfinished Business of Canadian Mennonite Belonging

The great displacement: climate change and the next American migration

The great displacement: climate change and the next American migration

Second Latin American migratory boom in Spain: From recovery to COVID-19

Abstract At the end of the second decade of the 21st century, Latin American migration to Spain showed a new quantitative increase in flows of such magnitude that we can speak of the existence of a second migratory boom. In contrast to what happened with the first migration boom at the beginning of the century, when pull factors dominated (mainly due to the expansion of the Spanish labour market), after the economic crisis of 2008 push factors played a more important role. Three processes leading to large-scale emigration are identified in Latin America: high levels of political instability in many Latin American countries such as Venezuela; growing insecurity, especially—but not only—in Central American countries, where it also coincides with increasing difficulties in entering the USA; and the effect of neoliberal policies, with growing tensions in many countries, as would be the case of Argentine migrants. COVID-19 has slowed down these flows and has led to increased numbers of returnees although the previous migratory intensities began to recover at the end of 2021.

Empresariado inmigrantelatinoamericano en Tijuana: sinergias fronterizas en cinco estudios de caso

This study on Latin American migration settled in the city of Tijuana, Mexico, aims to explore, describe and analyze the influenceof the border condition in the creation, development and persistence of an emerging ethnic entrepreneurship and its respective businesses of and for immigrants from the global peripheries. To this end an ethnographic research is proposedinfive observation units distributed in as various points of the border urban weave,belonging to gastronomic entrepreneurs from three national groups: Hondurans, Salvadorans,and Venezuelans. Participatory observation is carried out as a diner andseveral conversation techniques are implemented with the managers of these typical restaurants. Finally, through an interactive analysis,the presence of synergies between immigrant businesses and the border region is determined, which facilitate the existence of such businesses. The overall result is a first approach to the phenomenon, unpublished in previous studies in Mexico.

Community-Based Crime Prevention Programs and Central American Migration: A Difference in Differences Analysis

Community-based crime prevention programs are emerging as a crucial alternative for addressing violence in Central America, a significant driver of migration from the region to the United States. Comprehensive analyses of the impact of the adoption of programs on migration intentions, especially among individuals who have been victims of crime, are lacking. Using a distinctive survey dataset derived from randomized-controlled experiments conducted in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, this study shows that community-based crime prevention programs are associated with an increase in migration intentions in Guatemala but are not linked to migration intentions in El Salvador and Honduras. This finding holds even when considering whether these programs address neighborhood factors and perceived risk of future victimization. Further examination of these programs is warranted.

Extension Research on Great Migration of African Americans and the Impact on Their Salary

Extension Research on Great Migration of African Americans and the Impact on Their Salary

A Sense of Place: African Americans, Ethnogenesis and the Search for a “Black Mecca”

Ethnogenesis is a powerful mechanism which outlines how ethnic groups are formed. It is a complex process which often involves factors such as migration, cultural exchanges, intermarriage as well as religion. Ethnogenesis is also described as the historical and contemporary emergence of a group of people who define themselves in relation to a common socio-cultural and historical heritage. Focusing on African American migration during the Great Migration and its subsequent reverse migration, this study uses the theme of ethnogenesis to describe how migration to northern cities were shaped by a desire for solidarity and opportunity in as much as an escape from racial violence in the South. In the current trend of reverse migration, this work contends that migration is built on a need for opportunity as well as a desire for connectedness to ancestral homelands in the South. Examining the emergence of the “New South” in the post Jim-Crow landscape, this work evaluates the cultural, social and economic appeal of current migration streams. Using data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files, significant population declines are reported in former destinations like San Francisco, Chicago, and New York. Data also show southern resurgences in destinations like Lafayette, Louisiana and Charlotte, North Carolina. Likewise, there are also marked increases in new destinations like Las Vegas, Nevada and Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, Arizona. Additionally, data show that the Black population is growing in its diversity as well as density. People who identify as single-race Black, Black Latinx, and Black multiracial are a large (and growing) part of the Black population.

Exit is the answer: The political nature of Central American migration

AbstractThis article provides evidence that many Central Americans who have joined the migrant caravans to the north manifest a profound discontent with the political institutions of their home countries. It is based on surveys with migrants in refugee centres, compared with similar data from the AmericasBarometer survey, and complemented with contextual qualitative data on the experience of immigrants passing through Mexico. The article shows that several Central Americans in route to the north do not trust their political institutions and express little support for their political system. It demonstrates that in contexts where economic instability, rampant crime, and environmental uncertainty prevail, many citizens keep exiting their countries under the conviction that government institutions have lost the capability to protect them from existential threats.

Dry growing seasons predicted Central American migration to the US from 2012 to 2018

Controlling for factors such as criminal violence and poverty, we tested if drier than usual growing season weather was a predictor of emigration from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras to the US between 2012 and 2018. We focus on growing season weather because agriculture is a primary transmission pathway from the effects of climate change upon migration. We secured the migration apprehensions data for our analysis through a FOIA request to US Customs and Border Protection. Border Patrol intake interviews recorded the original home location of families that arrived at the southern US border. We used this geographic information to measure recent weather patterns and social circumstances in the area that each family departed. We found 70.7% more emigration to the US when local growing seasons in Central America were recently drier than the historical average since 1901.

When leaders disappoint: rejection and denial of leadership roles in international politics

International leadership failure by states is an underdeveloped concept in International Relations. Existing approaches commonly equate leadership with hegemony, arguing that leadership success and failure are contingent on primacy or shared material interests among states. In this article, we introduce a role theoretical approach, which defines international leadership as a social role that emerges from shared expectations among states pertaining to leadership purpose, group cohesion and time horizon. Accordingly, leadership failure occurs when role expectations between states diverge and states are unable to generate commensurate role-taking via alter-casting. Four leader-follower constellations can be distinguished: leadership enactment, denial, rejection and vacuum. The paper utilizes this theoretical heuristic to understand two cases of leadership failure. The first case involves Brazil’s attempted leadership role in response to the Latin American migration crisis following the political crisis in Venezuela. The second case examines Indonesia’s attempted leadership role in the South China Sea dispute. The empirical findings contribute to existing work on hegemony and leadership in international relations theory by showing that leadership failure comes in different variants and these variants are contingent on shared role expectations and alter-casting capacity of states involved.

Between a Polish Shiksa and a Jewish Woman: Ambiguous Identities in Eva Mekler's Novels

Abstract Focusing on the close reading of Eva Mekler's two novels, Sunrise Shows Late (1997) and The Polish Woman (2007), set in Poland, Germany, and the United States, this article considers Mekler's constructs of Polish Jewish and Polish Jewish American identity that the author situates at the fraught intersection of gender, Polishness and Jewishness as she reflects on diasporic variations of the Polish Jewish American migration story. Mekler, a Jewish American writer born in Poland immediately after World War II, deploys the trope of passing as Polish or passing as Jewish and engages the second generation's memories of the Holocaust as she explores the effects of war trauma on her female characters. Permanently positioning her characters, some of whom come from secular assimilated Jewish families, between Polishness and Jewishness, she rejects any possibility that they could identify themselves simultaneously as Polish and Jewish. They may only exist within the troubled spaces of confrontation between their performance of hybrid identities and the Nazi racial laws, anti-Semitism, suspicion of passers, Jewish anti-Polishness, and Holocaust trauma.

Unpacking the ideational foundations of South American migration governance: a systematic analysis of the South American conference on migration (SACM)

ABSTRACT Is there empirical evidence for a liberal paradigm that informs South American immigration governance? And how does this paradigm relate to other ideas on managing immigration? Based on Pécoud’s (2020) categorization of immigration governance philosophies, and the content analysis of all final declarations of the South American Conference on Migration between 2000 and 2022, we confirm a dominant liberal paradigm in the region. We further find that in South America, Pécoud’s global rights-based philosophy operates as a hinge between three other philosophies: the free (non) governance of migration, anti-migrant governance, and managerial/development global migration governance philosophy. Through our analysis, we demonstrate the applicability of Pécoud’s (2020) immigration governance philosophies to a major immigrant receiving region in the Global South, and contribute to the ideational literature by showing how paradigms and philosophies represent ideational building blocks that can be combined, merged, and adapted by political actors to different regional contexts.

Erosion and Culture

Erosion and Culture

Book Review: The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

Book Review: The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

Unpacking the Ideational Foundations of South American Migration Governance: A Systematic Analysis of the South American Conference on Migration (SACM)

Unpacking the Ideational Foundations of South American Migration Governance: A Systematic Analysis of the South American Conference on Migration (SACM)