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    IV. Unauthorized Migrants: The Workforce

    High levels of employment for men but not for women There were approximately 7.2 million unauthorized migrants in the civilian labor force in March 2005, accounting for about 4.9% of the U.S. workforce of 148 million workers. Unauthorized male migrants are more likely to work when compared with males who are either legal immigrants or […]

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    State of the News Media 2006: Ethnic and Alternative Media

    The ethnic media continued to grow in 2005 with the continuing growth in immigration in the U.S. And while some of the data are soft, and there were even signs of declines in the circulation of print publications, the general picture was robust.

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    Note on Methods and Terminology

    Getting the Number The estimate of unauthorized workers is derived by using a variant of a basic “residual” method. The method relies on exclusion. In other words, the unauthorized population consists of persons and groups not included in the authorized population. To reach that number, the first step is to develop an estimate for the […]

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    Voices from Countries

    Voices from Egypt Reporting by the International Herald Tribune* “There is a combination of reasons for lack of prosperity in certain areas. You cannot exclude the external factor. The Arab-Israeli conflict played a role in hindering economic development, but you cannot blame only the outside factor. There are other domestic factors, like deterioration of education, […]

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    Religion, Security and the Future of Latin America

    National Defense University Washington, D.C. The Pew Forum co-sponsored a symposium with the National Defense University’s School for National Security Executive Education on “Religion, Conflict and the Global War on Terrorism in Latin America.” In a presentation entitled “Religion, Security and the Future of Latin America,” keynote speaker Howard Wiarda of the University of Georgia, […]

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    II. Unauthorized Migrants: The Numbers

    How the estimates are formulated Neither the Census Bureau nor any other U.S. government agency counts the unauthorized migrant population or defines its demographic characteristics based on specific enumeration. The “residual method” is, however, a widely-accepted methodology for estimating the size and certain characteristics, such as age and national origins, of the undocumented population based […]

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    III. Unauthorized Migrants: Families and Children

    Gender and family composition Because unauthorized migration is driven primarily by the search for better wages (Kochhar 2005), the undocumented migrant is commonly thought of as a young, male worker usually unaccompanied by a wife or children. In fact, the full portrait of the unauthorized migrant population is more varied. Unauthorized migrants also live as […]

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    Appendix 1: Background on Voting by Mexicans Abroad

    Proposals to allow voting by Mexicans living outside the country to vote began circulating in Mexican political and academic circles at least a decade ago as the country undertook a reform of its electoral system and the migrant population in the United States boomed. The subject gained urgency under President Vicente Fox, who was elected […]

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    IV. Why Didn’t They Register?

    Mexicans living in the United States offered a variety of reasons for why expatriates did not register for the absentee ballot. The survey shows that the requirements for registering, along with a lack of information on the process, were significant obstacles. Many people also found the process too difficult. Mexico remains of primary interest to […]