{"id":5241,"date":"2008-12-18T06:29:33","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T11:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=5241"},"modified":"2010-12-02T05:15:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T10:15:14","slug":"emigrants-from-mexico-2006-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/12\/18\/emigrants-from-mexico-2006-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Emigrants from Mexico, 2006-2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have seen lots of graphs showing rates of immigration to the U.S. over time, but I just found this graph showing the rates of emigration from Mexico from 2006 to early summer of 2008 (from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.migrationinformation.org\/USfocus\/display.cfm?id=714#1\">Migration Information Source<\/a> website; this is all emigrants, regardless of destination, though of course the vast majority will be to the U.S.):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/12\/spot-dec08-fig1.gif\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5240 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/12\/spot-dec08-fig1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A quick note on the data: Since it required someone from a family to be left in Mexico to be asked about family emigration patters, it doesn&#8217;t include those situations where an entire family left all at once; however, my understanding of immigration patterns is that this type of immigration is a minority of all movements, since most families prefer to send one or two family members to get a foothold in the host country.<\/p>\n<p>As we see, there&#8217;s a general overall downward trend during that time period, which isn&#8217;t surprising given the downturn in the U.S. economy, especially the construction industry. The Mexican government reports that remittances sent back to Mexico are down this year as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0There is\u00a0also a seasonal pattern, with the period from August to February of each year being the lowpoint and then picking up again in the spring. My first thought, since I study agriculture, was that this might have something to do with the growing season and when agricultural workers are needed in the U.S., but of course it&#8217;s a stereotype that most Mexican immigrants are field workers, so that&#8217;s probably not it.<\/p>\n<p>Any thoughts on what might explain that pattern?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have seen lots of graphs showing rates of immigration to the U.S. over time, but I just found this graph showing the rates of emigration from Mexico from 2006 to early summer of 2008 (from the Migration Information Source website; this is all emigrants, regardless of destination, though of course the vast majority will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,2125,1824],"class_list":["post-5241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economics","tag-immigrationcitizenship","tag-nation-mexico"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30205,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241\/revisions\/30205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}