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In the literature on international migration we notice important efforts to explain, according to various perspectives and theoretical approaches, why do people migrate? And, which are the factors that explain the continuity and change in the international migratory processes? According to Cornelius four are the factors: the economic crises in Mexico, the economic restructuring and demand for labor migrants in the U.S., the changes in American migratory policy and the maturation of migrants’ transnational networks. It might be said that these four approaches allow explaining the dynamics of continuity and change that Mexican international migrations have historical witnessed: the demographic, economic, political and sociocultural approaches.
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Martínez et al. (2010: 13), point out that in “recent years there was intense activity around the topics of the contemporary migratory agenda fueled by noticeable events such as the UN High Level Dialogue (2006)”, the constitution of the Global Forum on Migration and Development, the constitution of the Ibero-American Forum on Migration and Development and the irruption of numerous intergovernmental, agential, academic and civil-society activities.
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These amounts include the international migrant population that remained in the U.S., international migrants who returned to Mexico during the five years prior to the date of the census, and unspecified values.
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Of the remaining 51 municipalities, 48 registered a positive percentage variation between the 5-year periods 1995–2000 and 2005–2010, while the information available for another 4 is insufficient to make estimates.
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The “Arizona effect” refers to the series of anti-immigrant laws that began with the promulgation of the so-called “Arizona Law” and later spread to at least five other U.S. states (Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Tennessee; BBVA 2012: 2).
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Jardón Hernández, A.E. (2017). Continuity and Change: From the Boom to the Slowing Down of International Migration from Mexico to the U.S.. In: International Migration and Crisis. SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace, vol 27. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43898-6_2
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