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Crossings: Mexican Immigration in Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Latin American Studies)
Crossings Mexican Immigration in Interdisciplinary Perspectives - Latin American Studies Author:Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco Immigration is the driving force behind a most significant social transformation taking place in U.S. society at the end of the millennium. Crossings brings together twelve original and interdisciplinary essays by leading scholars from both sides of the border to examine the most significant aspect of the new immigration: Mexican immigra... more »tion to the United States. In 1990, there were more legal immigrants from Mexico than from all of Europe combined. Seven million Mexican immigrants now reside in the United States, about a third of its total foreign-born population. Crossings concludes that this wave of immigration is a long term phenomenon that will continue to bind the two nations into the next century.« less