China's "tidal wave" of migrant labor: what can we learn from Mexican undocumented migration to the United States?

نویسنده

  • K D Roberts
چکیده

"The purpose of this article is to place Chinese labor migration from agriculture within the context of the literature on labor mobility in developing countries by comparing it to undocumented Mexican migration to the United States. The similarities fall within three general areas: the migration process, the economic and social position of migrants at their destination, and the agrarian structure and process of agricultural development that has perpetuated circular migration. The last section of the article draws upon these similarities, as well as differences between the two countries, to generate predictions concerning the development of labor migration in China."

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The International migration review

دوره 31 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1997