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This paper examines the meaning of the sharp change of migrationpolicy in Mexico in mid-2019. The purpose of the change was to exertgreater control of migrants and borders. The paper starts by contrastingthis change with the initial positions of President López Obrador’sgovernment; positions close to humanitarian and human rights perspectives.Then,...
The purpose of the chapter is to review Mexico’s responses to out-migration from Mexico—traditionally destined for the USA—since the early 1940s. The term “changing fortunes” alludes to the successes and failures of past Mexican responses to Mexico–US migration. By doing so, the chapter hopes to shed some light on current dilemmas in migration mana...
This article draws on data from the Mexican Migration Project and the Latin American Migration Project to study patterns of occupational mobility among male migrant household heads who have returned from the United States to Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Puerto Rico. In general, migration to the United States increases the likelihood of upward...
Este libro se suma a muchos otros del Consejo Nacional de Población en el cumplimiento, por parte del Conapo, del mandato que por ley tiene asignado: por un lado, proporcionar información confiable y ordenada en materia demográfica y, por otro, darle seguimiento riguroso a la problemática poblacional del país. El libro es obra de un equipo animado...
En este artículo se reflexiona sobre la naturaleza del desarrollo en el cambio de siglo, no porque las ideas ni las experiencias se ajusten al ritmo de las centurias, sino porque en la última parte del siglo XX se produjeron cambios que justifican sobradamente revisar las anteriores posturas sobre el desarrollo y las relaciones entre población y de...
Beginning in 1940, Mexico enjoyed a 30-year period of sustained economic growth; on the demographic side, this interval was characterized by sustained high fertility and rapidly falling mortality. By the early 1980s, the country faced crises of liquidity and inflation; a fertility decline had set in after the early 1970s. This assessment of four de...
Changes in the relationship between population factors and the development process in Mexico from 1940 to the present are reviewed. The authors show how the development that occurred up to about 1970 both absorbed and encouraged rapid population growth. They then describe how the emergence of problems concerning this relationship led to the develop...
Se trata de una evaluación de la experiencia mexicana en materia de población y desarrollo. Se examinan los alcances del periodo de rápido crecimiento económico (1940-1970) en el acomodo otorgado a una población también en rápido crecimiento. Se estima que a fines del periodo se produce un agotamiento de los patrones de acomodo demográfico tanto en...
