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From Casa Blanca to Tulsa: A Social Transformation Analysis of Mexican Migration in an Era of Neoliberal Globalization

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Social Transformation and Migration

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Abstract

Mexico is well known not only as a country of emigration but, increasingly also as a country of transit and return migration. Mexicans have travelled north for over a century in what has been described as the ‘largest sustained flow of migrant workers in the contemporary world’ (Massey et al., 1998), while recent decades have seen the growth of transit flows involving mostly Central American migrants on their way to the USA. Recently, too, Mexico has experienced a growing flow of return migration, as thousands of migrants have decided — or have been forced — to return from the USA to Mexico.

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    Stephen Castles (Research Chair in Sociology), Derya Ozkul  & Magdalena Arias Cubas (Research Chair in Sociology),  & 

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Cubas, M.A. (2015). From Casa Blanca to Tulsa: A Social Transformation Analysis of Mexican Migration in an Era of Neoliberal Globalization. In: Castles, S., Ozkul, D., Cubas, M.A. (eds) Social Transformation and Migration. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137474957_11

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