China's "tidal wave" of migrant labor: What can we learn from Mexican undocumented migration to the United States?

International Migration Review

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 249-293

  Roberts, Kenneth D ^a  

^a SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; ASIA; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISONS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DESTINATION; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EASTERN ASIA; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMICS; FAR EAST; ILLEGAL MIGRANTS; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; LABOR MIGRATION; METHODOLOGY; MEXICO; MIGRANTS; MIGRATION; MIGRATION, INTERNAL; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POLICY; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH; RETURN MIGRATION; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STUDIES; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AMERICAS; ASIA; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISONS; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DESTINATION; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EASTERN ASIA; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ILLEGAL MIGRANTS; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; LABOR MIGRATION; LATIN AMERICA; MEXICO; MIGRANTS; MIGRATION; MIGRATION, INTERNAL; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RETURN MIGRATION; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

AGRICULTURE; AMERICAS; ASIA; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FAR EAST; LATIN AMERICA; MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL PLANNING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031151042     PISSN: 01979183     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2547220     Document Type: Article

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