Alejandro Portes

For a moment think of traveling to a new foreign land where you do not know the customs, laws, traditions, or anything else how would you feel? Could you live in this place knowing that you are really never at home? According to center for immigration study web page a recent article by Karen Zeigler, Steven A. Camarota writes, “ The nation 's immigrant (foreign-born) population, which includes legal and illegal immigrants, grew by 4.1 million from the second quarter of 2011 to the second…

program in the year 1964 till the implementation of the IRCA in the year 1986, a time during which the people from Mexico were free to move across the borders and offer their labor services, the labor flow is revealed to be circular in nature (Portes, Alejandro 426). In the course of that period, it is approximated that about twenty-eight millions Mexicans moved to the USA and about twenty-three million finally returned to their home country and the net immigration total of about forty-six…