Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Policies, Dynamics, and Consequences of Mexican Migration to the United States (Harriett D. Romo)
• Part 1. Mexico-US Migration Legal Frameworks and Their Implications
  • Chapter 1. Evolving Migration Responses in Mexico and the United States: Diverging Paths? (Francisco Alba)
  • Chapter 2. An Economic Perspective on US Immigration Policy vis-À-vis Mexico (Pia M. Orrenius, Jason Saving, and Madeline Zavodny)
  • Chapter 3. Mexican Migration Dynamics: An Uncertain Future (Jorge Durand)
  • Chapter 4. Public Insecurity and International Emigration in Northern Mexico: Analysis at a Municipal Level (Liliana Meza GonzÁlez and Michael Feil)
  • Chapter 5. Explaining Unauthorized Mexican Migration and Assessing Its Implications for the Incorporation of Mexican Americans (Frank D. Bean, Susan K. Brown, and James D. Bachmeier)
• Part 2. Incorporation into Receiving Communities in the United States
  • Chapter 6. “Ni de aquÍ, ni de allÁ”: Undocumented Immigrant Youth and the Challenges of Identity Formation amid Conflicting Contexts (Roberto G. Gonzales, Joanna B. Perez, and Ariel G. Ruiz)
  • Chapter 7. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Student Success in Higher Education (Kandy Mink Salas, Henoc Preciado, and Raquel Torres)
  • Chapter 8. Who Has the Right to Health Care and Why? Immigration, Health-Care Policy, and Incorporation (Milena Andrea Melo and K. Jill Fleuriet)
  • Chapter 9. The Role of Elite Mexican Women Immigrants in Maintaining Language and Mexican Identity (Harriett D. Romo and Olivia Mogollon-Lopez)
• Part 3. Return Migration and Reincorporation
  • Chapter 10. Mexican Social Policy and Return Migration (AgustÍn Escobar LatapÍ)
  • Chapter 11. Students We Share Are Also in Puebla, Mexico: Preliminary Findings from a 2009–2010 Survey (VÍctor ZÚÑiga, Edmund T. Hamann, and Juan SÁnchez GarcÍa)
• Epilogue: Continuing Immigration Developments (Janeth Martinez)
• Conclusion: Is Mexican Migration to the United States Different from Other Migrations? (Harriett D. Romo)
• Contributors
• Index

About the Author

HARRIETT D. ROMO is a professor of sociology at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she directs the Child and Adolescent Policy Research Institute (CAPRI) and the UTSA Mexico Center.

OLIVIA MOGOLLON-LOPEZ is the program coordinator of UTSA’s Mexico Center. She holds a master’s degree in public policy from the Instituto TecnolÓgico AutÓnomo de MÉxico.