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"Beyond Smoke and Mirrors shows how U.S. immigration policies enacted between 1986 and 1996 - largely for symbolic domestic political purposes - harm the interests of Mexico, the United States, and the people who migrate between them. The costs have been high. The book documents how the massive expansion of border enforcement has wasted billions of dollars and hundreds of lives, yet has not deterred increasing numbers of undocumented immigrants from heading north.
The authors also uncover how the new policies unleashed a host of unintended consequences: a shift away from seasonal, circular migration toward permanent settlement; the creation of a black market for Mexican labor; the transformation of Mexican immigration from a regional phenomenon into a broad social movement touching every region of the country, and even the lowering of wages for legal U.S. residents.
What had been a relatively open and benign labor process before 1986 was transformed into an exploitative underground system of labor coercion, one that lowered wages and working conditions of undocumented migrants, legal immigrants, and American citizens alike.".
"Beyond Smoke and Mirrors offers specific proposals for repairing the damage. Rather than denying the reality of labor migration, the authors recommend regularizing it and working to manage it so as to promote economic development in Mexico, minimize costs and disruptions for the United States, and maximize benefits for all concerned. This book provides an essential "user's manual" for readers seeking a historical, theoretical, and substantive understanding of how U.S.
Policy on Mexican immigration evolved to its current dysfunctional state, as well as how it might be fixed."--BOOK JACKET.
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Detrs de la Trama
2009-02-01, Miguel Angel Porrua, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Cámara de Diputados, LX Legislatura, Miguel Ángel Porrúa
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Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration
September 2003, Russell Sage Foundation Publications
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Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration
March 2002, Russell Sage Foundation Publications
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Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration
2002, Russell Sage Foundation
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1610443829 9781610443821
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