CCIS associate director David FitzGerald comments on Santa Ana Businessman José “Lupe” Gόmez de Lara’s big idea that got the Mexican government to help spruce up immigrants’ hometowns and got him into politics back home.

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Four Generations of Nortenõs: New Research from the Cradle of Mexican Migration and Migration from the Mexican Mixteca: A Transnational Community in Oaxaca and California are reviewed in Judith Adler Hellman’s essay Migration in the Americas.
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Beyond la Frontera: The History of Mexico-U.S. Migration examines the transnational and historical impact of migratory trends as they developed in Mexico and the U.S. from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.  The book features David FitzGerald’s chapter Mexican Migration and the Law.
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CCIS Fellow Kathryn Kopinak has published an article titled How Maquiladora Industries Contribute
to Mexico-U.S. Labor Migration in the Spanish Journal Papers.
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With support from the Russell Sage Foundation, political scientists Theda Skocpol and Larry Jacobs assembled a group of scholars to analyze the politics of reform in the Obama administration.  The ensuing book, Reaching for a New Deal: Ambitious Governance, Economic Meltdown, and Polarized Politics in Obama’s First Two Years, is now available.  The book includes John Skrentny’s chapter, “Obama’s Immigration Reform: A Tough Sell for a Grand Bargain,” as well as chapters on health care, higher education, financial regulation, labor law reform, K-12 education, energy policy, and tax reform.
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John Skrentny, director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego, comments on the new illegal immigrant in-state tuition law.
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John Skrentny, director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and Wayne Cornelius, co-director of the University of California’s Center on Migration and Health, comment on the decline of undocumented immigration from Mexico.
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CCIS associate director David FitzGerald and director emeritus Wayne Cornelius’s research on migration was mentioned recently in a New York Times article about the suppression of illegal immigration in Mexico.
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Former CCIS Researcher Whitney L. Duncan’s new work on mental health issues in Mexico highlighted by UC Global Health Institute.
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