Perspectivas Mexicanas Sobre la Política Migratoria en los Estados Unidos: Hacia un Enfoque Bilateral

Author

Jeffrey S. Macdonald, Claremont McKenna CollegeFollow

Graduation Year

Spring 2013

Document Type

Campus Only Senior Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts

Department

Spanish

Second Department

Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE)

Reader 1

Lee Skinner

Rights Information

© 2013 Jeffrey S. Macdonald

Abstract

This thesis investigates the often neglected Mexican perspective on US immigration policy, contending that effective immigration policy can only be reached through a bilateral, multidimensional approach that incorporates the Mexican perspective. To delineate this perspective, I examine the historical, economic and socio-cultural views of immigration to the US in Mexico. I then evaluate the immigration policies pursued by both the US and Mexican governments through the lens of these Mexican perspectives. I show that current immigration policies and approaches are seriously flawed from the Mexican point of view, and stress that both governments must work to incorporate the Mexican perspective into the current debate over immigration reform in the United States.

Comments

• Best Senior Thesis in Modern Languages and Literatures
• Fulbright Fellowship to Mexico

Recommended Citation

Macdonald, Jeffrey S., "Perspectivas Mexicanas Sobre la Política Migratoria en los Estados Unidos: Hacia un Enfoque Bilateral" (2013). CMC Senior Theses. 608.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/608