US-Born Children in the US-Mexico Migration System

描述(由申请人提供)：处理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。对美国占主导地位的移民贡献国墨西哥的移民行为的经验证据表明，必须理解一个更复杂的过程。由于回流和重复移民是如此普遍，墨西哥移民的过程要求理解延伸到墨西哥出生的移民在美国出生的子女的移民和回流移民。这类第二代移民子女数量的大幅增长引发了同样根本的问题，即墨西哥-美国的进程已经或将在多大程度上从暂住劳动力移民转变为解决家庭移民。这项研究的目标是首先估计整个童年和青春期移民和返回美国的移民的流行率；其次了解母亲和孩子的教育是如何与这种移民相关的。在迁徙与母子分离相关的地方，这一点得到了进一步的探讨。美国出生登记识别墨西哥出生的母亲，以及美国和墨西哥1990年和2000年的人口普查微观数据一起使用，以估计墨西哥出生妇女在美国出生的男性和女性子女的两个地区移民模型，并比较20世纪80年代和90年代数十年的移民和教育关系。本世纪初的美国出生登记与20世纪80年代和90年代估计的儿童移民和发展模型一起使用，以了解美国-墨西哥移民系统中在美国出生的儿童的移民和教育过程新变化的根源。这些出生在美国的孩子在童年期间是留在美国还是回到墨西哥，其教育程度的差异以及母亲的教育程度与年龄的关系也得到了探索。通过这种方式，代际教育协会被研究为一个复杂的过程，不仅涉及直接的代际教育协会，而且还间接地通过国际移徙的干预过程。这项研究有助于更好地了解墨西哥移民的未来影响，并更全面地了解移民选择和家庭破裂的过程，这是理解墨西哥移民在美国经历的儿童健康后果所必需的。

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.