 Prior StudiesGinny Garcia ()
Chapter Chapter 2 in Mexican American and Immigrant Poverty in the United States, 2011, pp 7-31 from Springer Abstract: Abstract This chapter provides an extensive overview of prior studies and research related to the incidence of poverty among Mexican Americans and immigrants in the United States. It is divided into six sub-sections including a general overview of poverty and how it is defined according to the US government; a discussion of the utility and necessity for a relative measurerelative measure of poverty; a review of the literature dealing with the micro and macro level predictors of poverty among all groups in the US; a discussion of how immigrants in particular are impacted by poverty; a history of the migrationmigration trends between Mexico and the US; a discussion of the most important policies enacted relative to this population and their impacts; and a presentation of the expected contributions to be made by this book. This chapter concludes with a brief accounting of policy changespolicy changes which have had or are estimated to have the greatest impacts on the Mexican American and immigrant population. Keywords: Poverty Rate; Immigrant Population; Illegal Immigration; Poverty Status; Poverty Threshold (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:ssdmcp:978-94-007-0539-5_2 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0539-5_2 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis from Springer |
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