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Title: Emigrant America: Estimating and Envisaging Expatriation to Canada and Mexico

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: Migration in North America is much more diverse than a single inward immigration flow; emigration from the United States has been growing numerically and in terms of the diversity of those leaving. Though exploration, description, and analysis of American emigration is largely absent from international migration literature, American citizens living abroad are important domestic political, social, and economic actors. The media promotes the idea of Americans in Mexico as retirees and in Canada as fleeing U.S. politics. Yet, the limited literature shows a disparity between how the media represents this group and more rigorous data-based emigrant profiles. This dissertation investigates this emigration flow, guided by research questions that: explore changes in demographic composition; examine the portrayal of American emigration in mass media; and compare the depiction of American emigration in secondary data to the narrative told by mass media.

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Authors: Mindes, Samuel, CH

Institution: Michigan State University

Department: Sociology

Advisor: Mullan, Brendan P.

Degree: Ph.D.

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Data Collections: IPUMS International

Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other, Population Mobility and Spatial Demography

Countries: Mexico