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Title: Gender Differences in the Destination Choices of Labor Migrants: Mexican Migration to the United States in the 1990s

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: The geography of Mexican immigration to the United States dramatically shifted in the1990s with greater settlement occurring in new destination regions with little history ofimmigration. This research assesses gender differences in destination choices ofMexican immigrants that arrived in the United States in the late 1990s. We hypothesizethat female immigrants choose destinations with more diverse or mature Mexican-bornpopulations relative to male immigrants due to greater availability of and access tomigration resources. We use 1990 and 2000 Census data and conditional multinomiallogistic regression models to predict the probability of destination choice among recentMexican immigrants. As expected, we find that both prior settlement and Mexican-bornmaturity are more important for female immigrants than for male immigrants. We alsofind, however, empirical distinctions between the effects of population maturity and theamount of previous immigration, which are closely tied in the social causation literature.

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Authors: Leach, Mark A.; Bachmeirer, James

Conference Name: "Migration: A World in Motion," A Multinational Conference on Migration and Migration Policy

Publisher Location: Maastricht, Netherlands

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Gender, Migration and Immigration

Countries: United Kingdom