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New Estimates of Undocumented Mexican Migration and the Probability of Apprehension

Author(s) -

Douglas S. Massey,

Audrey Singer

Publication year - 1995

Publication title -

demography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.099

H-Index - 129

eISSN - 1533-7790

pISSN - 0070-3370

DOI - 10.2307/2061740

Subject(s) - apprehension , econometrics , inflow , geography , statistics , net migration rate , demographic economics , demography , mathematics , population , economics , psychology , sociology , population growth , meteorology , cognitive psychology

Using a new source of data, we estimate the probability of apprehension among Mexican migrants attempting to cross into the United States without documents. Over the period 1965-1989 we found an average apprehension probability of .35, confirming earlier estimates. We then applied annual probabilities to estimate the gross volume of undocumented Mexican migration and adjusted these figures to derive estimates of the net undocumented inflow.

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