Thinking About International Migration Douglas S. Massey Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs Princeton University
Migration and Natural Increase Zlotnik, Hania. 2004 Migration and Natural Increase Zlotnik, Hania. 2004. “Population Growth and International Migration.” Pp. 13-34 in Douglas S. Massey and J. Edward Taylor, eds., International Migration: Prospects and Policies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Migration and Economic Development Massey, Douglas S. 1988 Migration and Economic Development Massey, Douglas S. 1988. International Migration and Economic Development in Comparative Perspective.” Population and Development Review 14:383-414.
US Migration Associated With More Development Within Mexico: US Migration Associated With More Development Not Less Development in Communities
Relative Effect of Binational Wage Gap on Rate of Migration to the United States Massey, Douglas S., and Kristen E. Espinosa. 1997. “What’s Driving Mexican Migration to the United States?” American Journal of Sociology 203:939-999.
Permanence of Mexican Immigration Historically Migration Has Been Circular 1965-1985 85% of Undocumented Entries Were Offset By Departures Over Same Period Annual Probability of Return Was 33% Around 70% Back Home within 5 Years Massey, Douglas S., and Audrey Singer. 1995. “New Estimates of Undocumented Migration and the Probability of Apprehension.” Demography 32:203-13.
Effect of Costs of Entry on Undocumented Migration Massey, Douglas S., Jorge Durand, and Nolan J. Malone. 2002. Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Age of Economic Integration. New York: Russell Sage.
Consequences of Misunderstanding Sharp Decline in Return Migration Nationalization of Immigration Decline in Wages for Legal Migrants Waste of Money Waste of Lives
Thinking About International Migration Douglas S. Massey Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs Princeton University