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630 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2010)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0630 and id is 1 raw text is: INTRODUCTION Migration in the Americas: Mexico and Latin America in Comparative Context By KATHARINE M. DONATO, JONATHAN HISKEY, JORGE DURAND, and DOUGLAS S. MASSEY Because Mexico-U.S. migration repre- sents the largest sustained migratory flow between two nations worldwide, much of the theoretical and empirical work on migra- tion in the Americas has focused on this single case. Yet in the past few decades, migra- tion has emerged as a critical issue across all nations in Latin America and the Caribbean. Indeed, over the past fifteen years, this region has changed its historical position from a net migrant-receiving region to one of the leading sending areas of the world. In this volume, we offer the first systematic assessment of Latin American migration pat- terns using ongoing research on the Mexican case as a basis for comparison. We include work by leading scholars of migration who draw on a common source of comparable data. Our spe- cific purpose is to determine whether and how Mexican migration is similar to or different from migration in other countries of the hemisphere. The analyses are comparative and based on data from the Mexican Migration Project (MMP) and the Latin American Migration Project (LAMP), which together offer the most com- prehensive and reliable source of data on migra- tion from Latin America and the Caribbean. Each chapter examines specific propositions or findings derived from the Mexican case that have not yet been tested for other Latin American or Caribbean nations. Work from Mexico has now produced a fairly conven- tional account of migration and settlement in the United States, but we know very little about how Mexican patterns generalize to other migra- tory flows in the region. A major shortcoming of prior research is its overreliance on data from just one country. To the extent that other countries have been studied, most of the research to date has been conducted on a case-by-case basis rather than comparatively. As a result, conclusions about DOI: 10.1177/0002716210368101 ANNALS, AAPSS, 630, July 2010 6

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