US-Born Children in the US-Mexico Migration System

美国-墨西哥移民系统中在美国出生的儿童

• 批准号: 7192783
• 负责人: MICHAEL S. RENDALL
• 金额: $ 9.6万
• 依托单位: RAND CORPORATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-04-01 至 2009-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7192783
• 关键词: US; Born; Children; Mexico; Migration

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Social demographic models addressing the effects of immigration typically focus on the settlement and adaptation processes of different immigrant groups. Empirical evidence on the migration behavior of the US's dominant immigrant-contributing country, Mexico, indicates that a more complex process must be understood. Because return and repeat migration is so prevalent, the processes of Mexican migration demand an understanding that extends to the emigration and return migration of US-born children of Mexican-born migrants. The very large growth in numbers of such second-generation immigrant children raises questions as fundamental as to what extent has there been or will there be a transformation of the Mexico-US process from one of sojourning labor migration to settling family migration. The objectives of this study are first to estimate the prevalence of emigration and return migration to the US throughout childhood and adolescence; and second to understand how education of mother and child are associated with this migration. Where migration is associated with separation of mother and child, this is further explored. US birth registrations identifying Mexican-born mothers and US and Mexican 1990 and 2000 census micro-data are used together to estimate a two-region migration model for US-born male and female children of Mexican-born women, and to compare migration and education relationships over the decades of the 1980s and 1990s. US birth registrations into the 2000s are used with the models of childhood migration and development estimated for the 1980s and 1990s to understand the sources of new changes to the migration and education process of US-born children in the US-Mexico migration system. Differences in educational attainment of these US-born children according to whether they stay in the US or return to Mexico during childhood are explored, as is the relationship of mother's educational attainment and age. In this way, the inter-generational education association is studied as a complex process involving not only direct inter- generational educational associations but also indirectly through the intervening process of international migration. The study contributes to developing a better understanding the future impact of Mexican immigration and to a fuller understanding of the processes of emigrant selection and family disruption that are needed to understand the health consequences for children of Mexican migrant experience in the US.

描述（由申请人提供）：解决移民影响的社会人口模型通常侧重于不同移民群体的定居和适应过程。关于美国主要移民贡献国墨西哥移民行为的经验证据表明，必须理解一个更复杂的过程。由于返回和重复移民是如此普遍，墨西哥移民的过程需要一个理解，延伸到移民和墨西哥出生的移民在美国出生的孩子返回移民。这种第二代移民子女数量的大幅增长提出了一个根本性的问题，即墨西哥-美国的过程已经或将在多大程度上从旅居劳动力移民转变为定居家庭移民。本研究的目的是首先估计整个童年和青春期移民和移民回美国的流行率;其次了解母亲和孩子的教育如何与这种移民相关联。在移徙与母子分离有关的情况下，将进一步探讨这一问题。美国出生登记确定墨西哥出生的母亲和美国和墨西哥1990年和2000年的人口普查微观数据一起使用，以估计一个两个地区的移民模型，美国出生的男性和女性儿童的墨西哥出生的妇女，并比较移民和教育的关系在20世纪80年代和90年代的几十年。美国出生登记到2000年使用的儿童移民和发展模型估计为20世纪80年代和90年代，以了解新的变化的来源，美国出生的儿童在美国-墨西哥移民系统的移民和教育过程。这些美国出生的孩子，根据他们是否留在美国或返回墨西哥在童年时期的教育程度的差异进行了探讨，因为是母亲的教育程度和年龄的关系。因此，代际教育联系是一个复杂的过程，不仅涉及直接的代际教育联系，而且还间接地通过国际移徙的干预过程来研究。这项研究有助于更好地了解墨西哥移民对未来的影响，并更充分地了解移民选择和家庭破裂的过程，这些过程是了解墨西哥移民在美国的经历对儿童健康造成的后果所必需的。