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

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

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Author: Douglas S. Massey
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation Publications
Category: Book

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Sales Rank: 34387

Media: Paperback
Pages: 216
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.7

ISBN: 087154590X
Dewey Decimal Number: 304
EAN: 9780871545909
ASIN: 087154590X

Publication Date: September 2003
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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 disenfrachisement. 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.

The costs of the U.S. policy 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.

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 and minimize costs and disruptions for the United States. Beyond Smoke and Mirrors 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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Excellent overview by one of our foremost immigration scholars June 26, 2006
Michael Lichter (Buffalo, NY USA)
19 out of 22 found this review helpful

Most popular discussions of contemporary U.S. immigration ignore history and the "facts on the ground." Massey lays out the history of Mexico-U.S. migration. He provides convincing evidence that stepped-up border enforcement efforts since the early 1990s have been both deadly and counterproductive. He argues forcefully for an immigration policy that takes the realities of U.S.-Mexican social and economic integration into account. Readers who are convinced that immigration is a bad thing in itself will not be persuaded by Massey to change their minds; those who are interested in a dispassionate discussion of border control issues will find this book provocative and useful.

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Everyone can learn from this book May 31, 2009
Applied Sociologist
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

Massey et al. explain how immigration policy - often based on prejudice and scapegoating - has led to consequences that are bad for US citizens, Mexico, and immigrants (legal or otherwise). I also think everyone ought to read this book, especially people in the Obama administration. Anti-immigration folks might think that limiting benefits, for example, would deter immigration but in fact it has had the opposite effect. They have many such examples, and unlike many whining sociologists*, propose solid policy at the end of the book. I found it extremely readable, and would be so for undergraduates as well.

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Best Book on the Subject February 21, 2008
J. Zelenski (Lakewood, CO United States)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful

Professor Massey has shared with readers his many years of in depth, primary research on the subject of Mexican immigration. Every policymaker and every American should read it.

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Ver y slow due to heavy facts yet compensates at the end March 2, 2003
20 out of 34 found this review helpful

The book speaks of the continuing problems with immgration due to border policies between America and Mexico. Out of about 9 chapters eight are facts and figures charts and graphs and only the last chapter is thought provoking. In it the authors give their opinion of how America's border policies should change in order to accomodate Mexican immigrants- they made good points that leaves you somewhat satisfied after a mind numbing 8 chapters of...???? But For research purposes and stats I would definately recommend this book.

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