The expansion of immigrant networks at origin: a case study of a rancho in Jalisco, Mexico

Abstract

Although the theory of cumulative causation posits a “saturation point” at which all members of a rural community who are potential transnational migrants will have migrated, in the case of dynamic out-migration centers, this saturation point may never be reached. This is because growth centers – the growth often having been propelled by wages and remittances of prior migrants – attract in-migrants from poorer, less dynamic, surrounding ranchos that eventually become incorporated in transnational migration networks of the more dynamic rancho. It is also due to intermarriage as well as friendship and ritual kinship ties between members of the core rancho and surrounding ranchos.

Citation

Wilson, T.D. (2009), "The expansion of immigrant networks at origin: a case study of a rancho in Jalisco, Mexico", Wood, D.C. (Ed.) Economic Development, Integration, and Morality in Asia and the Americas (Research in Economic Anthropology, Vol. 29), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 283-303. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0190-1281(2009)0000029013