In approximately three decades, gender and migration scholarship has moved from a few
studies that included women immigrants or included gender as a dichotomous variable to a …

What do we know about the role of extended families and kinship networks for redistributing
resources? What gaps in our knowledge most need to be filled? How can we best organize …

What are the economic consequences to US natives of the growing diversity of American
cities? Is their productivity or utility affected by cultural diversity as measured by diversity of …

The migration literature has identified various feedback mechanisms which explain why,
once started, migration processes tend to become partly self-perpetuating, leading to the …

This paper examines the role of migration networks in determining self-selection patterns of
Mexico-US migration. A simple theoretical framework shows the impact of networks on …

A decade after the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) ush ered in the free
movement of goods and capital, labor mobility between the United States and Mexico …

We review developments in research on within-country migration, focusing on internal
migration in the United States. We begin by describing approaches to modeling individuals' …

Development Economics: Theory and Practice provides students and practitioners with the
perspectives and the tools they need to think analytically and critically about the current …

In this paper, I selectively review recent literature on illegal migration from Mexico to the
United States. I begin by discussing methods for estimating stocks and flows of illegal …

This article investigates how migrant social capital differentially influences individuals'
migration and cumulatively generates divergent outcomes for communities. To combine the …