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Activity Number: 128
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Monday, August 7, 2006 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Social Statistics Section
Abstract - #307667
Title: Mexican Immigration to the United States: Challenges and Options
Author(s): Jeffrey S. Passel*+
Companies: Pew Hispanic Center
Address: 1615 L. Street NW, Washington, DC, 20036,
Keywords: Illegal immigration ; demographic structure ; projections
Abstract:

Mexico has been the largest source of both legal and unauthorized migration to the United States for four decades. As a result, the Mexican born population of the United States grew from 760,000 in 1970 to more than 11.6 million in 2005; it represents almost one-third of the immigrants living in the United States. With this astounding growth, about 10% of Mexico's population is in the United States. The paper describes principal characteristics of Mexican migrants--demographic structure, education, income, geographic distribution, and legal status--and recent changes. Migration flows have contributed to significant demographic changes within Mexico. The paper closes with an assessment of migration trends and impacts on population size and age structure in both countries over the next fifty years.

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