The social process of undocumented border crossing among Mexican migrants

International Migration Review

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 561-592

  Singer, Audrey ^a   Massey, Douglas S ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN CAPITAL; MIGRATION; MODELING; SOCIAL NETWORK;

MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031784472     PISSN: 01979183     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2547764     Document Type: Article

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