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POPULATION STUDIES-A JOURNAL OF DEMOGRAPHY
Volume 71, Issue 2, Pages 249-264Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2017.1306093
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unauthorized immigration; Mexican migration; US-Mexico border; border enforcement; survey methodology
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- University of Arizona's Underrepresented Graduate Student Final Project Fund
- Programa de Investigacion de Migracion y Salud (PIMSA), Health Initiative of the Americas at the University of California, Berkeley
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Increased border enforcement efforts have redistributed unauthorized Mexican migration to the United States (US) away from traditional points of crossing, such as San Diego and El Paso, and into more remote areas along the US-Mexico border, including southern Arizona. Yet relatively little quantitative scholarly work exists examining Mexican migrants' crossing, apprehension, and repatriation experiences in southern Arizona. We contend that if scholars truly want to understand the experiences of unauthorized migrants in transit, such migrants should be interviewed either at the border after being removed from the US, or during their trajectories across the border, or both. This paper provides a methodological overview of the Migrant Border Crossing Study (MBCS), a unique data source on Mexican migrants who attempted an unauthorized crossing along the Sonora-Arizona border, were apprehended, and repatriated to Nogales, Sonora in 2007-09. We also discuss substantive and theoretical contributions of the MBCS.
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