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The Ethnosurvey & The Mexican Migration Project

The Ethnosurvey & The Mexican Migration Project. Outline. Context and Historical Overview Methodology Publications. Move Towards the Survey. Rooted in the Census Transformation of Formal Demography into Social Demography Topical issues

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The Ethnosurvey & The Mexican Migration Project

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  1. The Ethnosurvey & The Mexican Migration Project

  2. Outline • Context and Historical Overview • Methodology • Publications

  3. Move Towards the Survey • Rooted in the Census • Transformation of Formal Demography into Social Demography • Topical issues • Relationship between population and social processes • Census no longer adequate • Why, not just What? • Implementation of Survey’s began • 1982 , the Ethnosurvey

  4. The Mexican Migration Project (MMP) • Designed by Massey et al. to analyze the social processes of migration • Combined Effort • First Survey 1982 • 4 Communities • Now 124 • Annual interviews • Specifically targets migrants in Mexico and the US

  5. Ethnosurvey • Methodology of the MMP • “A full understanding of the migration process requires information that is historically grounded, ethnographically interpreted, and quantitatively rigorous.” • Designed to operate at the community level http://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/research/maps-en.aspx

  6. Sampling Techniques Varied communities selected Mapped Random Sample Sample size similar across communities Low refusal rate http://harrogatenorth.com/images/HarrogateCommunityMap.gif

  7. US migrant Sampling Techniques • Snowball sampling • Potential for bias? • Confidentiality http://www.migrationinformation.org/images/Spotlight-on-Mexican-Immigrants-April-2008-map.gif

  8. Question Design and Interview “Informal and unthreatening” Semi-structured Two phases Detail History

  9. Data Coding and File Construction • Coding conducted by field assistants familiar with the interview process. • Checked multiple times for clerical errors

  10. Ethnosurvey Strengths • Analyze detailed data compared to the census • Can document trends extremely well • Makes further analysis easy • Control for distortion • Results were congruent with Mexican research (Massey and Zenteno 1999)

  11. Ethnosurvey Weaknesses • High costs and upkeep • Cannot explain causality, just note trends • Explains behavior not motivations • Qualitative up to a point

  12. Ethnosurvey Weaknesses, continued… • Broad Quantifications • Quantify human beings • Not generalizable • Only actually applied in one setting

  13. Examples Articles from MMP • (Phillips and Massey 2000) • (Kanaiaupuni 2000) • (Bauer, Epstein and Gang 2002)

  14. Conclusion • “First we shape our buildings and then they shape us. The same may be said of our statistics.”–Winston Chrucill

  15. Reference List: • Bauer, Thomas, Gil Epstein, and Ira Gang. 2002. Herd Effects or Migration Networks? The Location Choice of Mexican Immigrants in the U.S. Mobility and Flexibility of Labor 11, no. 8: 31-50.  • Kanaiaupuni, Shawn. 2000. Reframing the Migration Question: An Analysis of Men, Women, and Gender in Mexico. Social Forces 78, no. 4: 1311-48.  • Massey, Douglas, Rafael Alarcon, Jorge Durand, and HumbertoGonzález. 1990. The Social Process of International Migration from Western Mexico. New York: University of California.  • Massey, Douglas, and Rene Zenteno. 2000. A Validation of the Ethnosurvey: The Case of Mexico-U.S. Migration. International Migration Review 34: 766-93.  • Phillips, Julie, and Douglas Massey. 2000. Engines of Immigration: Stocks of Human and Social Capital in Mexcio. Social Science Quarterly 81, no. 1: 33-48.  • The Mexican Migration Project Home. Mexican Migration Project.http://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/ (accessed February 20, 2010). • Weeks, John. 2007. Population An Introduction to Concepts and Issues. New York: Belmont:Wadsworth. 

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