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Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration 58131st Edition

by Douglas S. Massey (Author), Jorge Durand (Author), Nolan J. Malone (Author)

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Migration between Mexico and the United States is part of a historical process of increasing North American integration. This process acquired new momentum with the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994, which lowered barriers to the movement of goods, capital, services, and information. But rather than include labor in this new regime, the United States continues to resist the integration of the labor markets of the two countries. Instead of easing restrictions on Mexican labor, the United States has militarized its border and adopted restrictive new policies of immigrant disenfranchisement. Beyond Smoke and Mirrors examines the devastating impact of these immigration policies on the social and economic fabric of the Mexico and the United States, and calls for a sweeping reform of the current system. Beyond Smoke and Mirrors shows how U.S. immigration policies enacted between 1986–1996―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 show 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.

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A significant contribution to a deeper, interdisciplinary analysis of migration flows and policies. -- Millenium: Journal of International Studies, Vol. 31:3

A welcome contribution to the debate on immigration policy -- Latin American Research Review

An unmatched overview of the realities of Mexican migration to the United States. -- Development Policy Review, May 2003

Deserves serious attention ... An important contribution to the field of U.S.-Mexico relations. -- Urban Studies, Vol. 40:3

This book raises important questions and forces serious thought. -- Industrial & Labor Relations Review, January 2003

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DOUGLAS S. MASSEY is the Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. JORGE DURAND is professor and investigator in the Department for the Study of Social Movements at the Universidad de Guadalajara. NOLAN J. MALONE is a doctoral candidate in demography at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Russell Sage Foundation; 58131st edition (September 11, 2003)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 216 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 087154590X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0871545909
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches

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Douglas S. Massey is the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Formerly he was the Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is co-author of American Apartheid (Harvard University Press, 1993), which won the Distinguished Publication Award of the American Sociological Association. He has written widely on topics pertaining to race, segregation, and social inequality. In addition to his American Apartheid, his books include Categorically Unequal and Spheres of Influence (both published by the Russell Sage Foundation) as well as Climbing Mount Laurel (Princeton University Press), which won the Paul Davidoff Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.

Massey has also published extensively on Mexican immigration, including the books Return to Aztlan (University of California Press, 1987) and Miracles on the Border (University of Arizona Press, 1995). The latter book, co-authored with Jorge Durand, won a 1996 Southwest Book Award. Also coauthored with Jorge Durand are the books Crossing the Border (Russell Sage Foundation, 2004) and Beyond Smoke and Mirrors (Russell Sage Foundation 2002). The latter won the 2004 Otis Dudley Duncan Award for the best book in social demography. His most recent book on immigration is Brokered Boundaries, coauthored with Magaly Sanchez (Russell Sage Foundation 2010).

Massey has also served on the faculty of the University of Chicago where he directed its Latin American Studies Center and Population Research Center. He is also formerly a director of the University of Pennsylvania's Population Studies Center and chair of its Graduate Group in Demography. During 1979 and 1980 he undertook postdoctoral research at the University of California at Berkeley and Princeton University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1978. Massey is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Academia Europea. He is Past-President of the Population Association of America, the American Sociological Association, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

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Customers find the book's content enlightening and interesting. They find it a great piece of analysis that is still relevant 15 years after its publication. The topic is also considered politicized, and the book presents a compelling case to demonstrate the politicized nation of policies. Readers describe the writing as clear and easy to read.

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A great piece of analysis stilll highly relavent 15 year since its publication!
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Doug Massey is a leading scholars on Mexico-U.S. migration, and this book is a culmination of his and his colleagues' empirical research for close to two decades. Grounded in well-established principles in international immigration research, this book adopts objective lens to examine the complex forces underlying the migration between Mexico and the United States. The authors reviews a history shaped by competition between economic motives, nativist sentiments, and shifting regulatory regimes. The book presents a compelling case to demonstrate the politicized nation of policies enacted since the 1980s, which have not only been costly, ineffective in deterring border crossing, but also inadvertently encouraged more unauthorized migrants to stay in the United States. The same issues have become even more pronounced with the greater integration between the two countries since the passage of NAFTA. At an era when the United States is doubling down on a border control regime that has in many ways been counter-productive, the alternative system of rational management presented by these authors in 2002 deserves more consideration.

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If we assume the data is correct, I think these authors have made a compelling argument for a more rational, kind immigration system with Mexico. While I would be in favour of a North American borderless zone, I understand that would not be acceptable to many.

This is a clearly written, methodical discussion of immigration on the southern border, and would highly recommend.

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We all have to read this now
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We all have to read this book now to understand why immigration is not as bad as we think it is.

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I didn't like how it was written- very redundant throughout the book
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I didn't like how it was written- very redundant throughout the book. It needs better editing. Beyond that, the topic was certainly interesting.

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A policy-oriented book
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Explicitly policy-oriented, this book by Douglas Massey does not follow as faithfully the theoretical line he originated earlier. That line emphasized cumulative causation in migration processes whereas this book introduces exogenous, policy shocks that inhibit the cumulative causation already underway from reaching its logical conclusion.

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First book you must read if you want to study recent US migration.
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This is a great book. First book you must read if you want to study recent US migration. It really reach the core of the migration problem of United States.

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To understand the US Mexico border, one needs a long view and a deep view. Massey offers both.

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