Deportations and departures: Undocumented Mexican immigrants' return migration during three presidential administrations.

ABSTRACT: This study examines changes in the sociodemographic patterns of deportation and voluntary return of undocumented immigrants from the United States to Mexico during three US presidential administrations (2001 to 2019) with different immigration policies. Most previous studies examining these migration flows for the United States as a whole have relied exclusively on counts of deportees and returnees, thereby ignoring changes over the past 20 y in the characteristics of the undocumented population itself, i.e., the population at risk of deportation or voluntary return. We estimate Poisson models based on two data sources that permit us to compare changes in the sex, age, education, and marital status distributions of both deportees and voluntary return migrants with the corresponding changes

SUBMITTER: Sohn H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9992781 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature