Migration Dialogue provides timely, factual and nonpartisan information and analysis of international migration issues through five major activities: the newsletters Migration News and Rural Migration News, Changing Face and other Research & Seminars, and the Sloan West Coast Program on Science and Engineering Workers.
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Almost 12 million Mexican-born residents live in the US, including some seven million who are unauthorized. Mexico has 110 million residents in 2009, suggesting that 10 percent of the 122 million people born in Mexico have moved to the US.
Most of Mexico's poverty is concentrated in the rural areas that were home to many of the Mexicans who have moved to the US. About 24 percent of Mexico's 108 million residents, 22 percent, live in 200,000 rural communities with fewer than 2,500 residents. Some 4.5 million Mexicans hold agricultural land titles, and 75 percent of title-holders are men. However, women do an increasing share of the work in many farming households because many men have migrated to the US or elsewhere in Mexico.
An August-September 2009 poll of 1,000 Mexicans in Mexico conducted for the Center for Immigration Studies found that most believe illegal migration to the US would increase if the US government announced a legalization program. Two-thirds of those polled knew someone living in the United States; a third had an immediate household member living in the United States. As with a similar Pew poll, over a third of Mexicans said they would move to the US if they could. Pew reported that half of the 36 million potential Mexican migrants were prepared to move illegally to the US.
Migration News is produced with the support of the John D. and Catherine T. MacAurther Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and UCB Institute of European Studies. A paper edition is available by mail for $30 domestic and $50 foreign for one year and $55 and $95 for two years. Make checks payable to Migration Dialogue and send to
Philip Martin, Department of Ag and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, California 95616 USA.
Rural Migration News is produced with the support of the Colcom, Farm, and Giannini Foundations, and the UCD Gifford Center for Population Studies. A paper edition is available by mail for $30 domestic and $50 foreign for one year and $55 and $95 for two-years. Make checks payable to Migration Dialogue and send to
Philip Martin, Department of Ag and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, California 95616 USA.
This network of researchers hosts seminars on labor and immigration issues affecting science and engineering workers, compiles and distributes information on these issues, and cooperates closely with the NBER's SEWP.
The Changing Face project assesses the effects of immigrant farm workers on agriculture and agricultural communities.
Include Opinion Leader Seminars, the Comparative Immigration and Integration Program, and Transatlantic Migration Policy Issue seminars.
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