Wealth inequality in America

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It would be good to know what is the share of specific 'minorities' in this chart...

 

Bilingual Colloquim

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First encounter of the 20 Years Later project research team.
University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA)
February 21-22, 2013

Immigration explorer

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Interactive map of foreing immigration in the US.

Net Migration from Mexico Falls to Zero

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Released: April 23, 2012

Net Migration from Mexico Falls to Zero—and Perhaps Less

by Jeffrey Passel, D’Vera Cohn and Ana Gonzalez-Barrera

The largest wave of immigration in history from a single country to the United States has come to a standstill. After four decades that brought 12 million current immigrants—more than half of whom came illegally—the net migration flow from Mexico to the United States has stopped—and may have reversed, according to a new analysis by the Pew Hispanic Center of multiple government data sets from both countries.

The standstill appears to be the result of many factors, including the weakened U.S. job and housing construction markets, heightened border enforcement, a rise in deportations, the growing dangers associated with illegal border crossings, the long-term decline in Mexico’s birth rates and changing economic conditions in Mexico.

Binational Mexicans

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Jorge Durán
La Jornada. 11 de marzo de 2012.

Al terminar una conferencia sobre migración en un pueblo michoacano se me acercó una familia a platicar y me informaron que acababan de regresar de Estados Unidos. Al preguntarles por la razón de su retorno me dijeron que se acababan de naturalizar y al día siguiente de haber obtenido su pasaporte estadunidense regresaron al pueblo de origen.

La razón es muy simple, habían pasado muchos años en Estados Unidos, obtuvieron la residencia, pero no querían quedarse de manera definitiva. Sin embargo, consideraban la nacionalidad como un seguro de vida y de salud, para ellos y sus hijos. Una vez logrado el objetivo, emprendieron el camino del retorno.

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Mexico's migrants return as the American dream fades

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By Ignacio de los Reyes
BBC Mundo, Mexico City

Rural towns are changing as migrants bring new influences Silvano Ramos, 36, left his home of Chilcuautla, a town of 12,000 inhabitants in the central Mexican state of Hidalgo, 12 years ago. He left, like so many others, in search of the American dream. 

Rural towns are changing as migrants bring new influences

He crossed the river Rio Grande - or Rio Bravo as it's known in Mexico - along the Texas border to work illegally as a construction worker in Nevada.
But when the US economy began to stall with the housing market collapse six years ago, he decided to leave that dream behind. Last January he became the mayor of Chilcuautla, where 80% of the population has a family member in the US.
He represents a new wave of Mexicans who are deciding to return home - though it is unclear whether their homeland is ready to take them all back.

Improving economy

"The sad situation is that we are not prepared to welcome so many migrants. It is worrying, there will be chaos if they start returning en masse, there's not much we can offer them here," Mayor Ramos tells the BBC. Some 400,000 Mexicans returned last year, the country's National Migration Institute (INM) says.

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Better Lives for Mexicans Cut Allure of Going North

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Better Lives for Mexicans Cut Allure of Going North

Economic, demographic and social changes in Mexico are suppressing illegal immigration as much as the poor economy or legal crackdowns in the United States.

AGUA NEGRA, Mexico — The extraordinary Mexican migration that delivered millions of illegal immigrants to the United States over the past 30 years has sputtered to a trickle, and research points to a surprising cause: unheralded changes in Mexico that have made staying home more attractive.

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