Europe is good?

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"They told me Europe is good"... How different or alike are things for migrants in North America?

 

About the immigration reform 2013

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Two views on the Immigration Reform, currently debated in the USA (2013)

ANTONIO GONZALEZ ON IMMIGRATION REFORM


SENATOR JOHN McCAIN ON IMMIGRATION REFORM

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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Clic image to download PDF report

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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