A Conversation with Agustín Escobar Latapí – Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
The U.S. tends to emphasize the total size of the Mexican immigrant population, which hasn’t grown since 2007. The other side of the coin, of course, is what happens in Mexico. In a nutshell, the total size of the population moving to Mexico from the U.S. has grown remarkably.
In the 2000 Mexican census, 230,000 Mexicans said that their country of residence had been the U.S. five years earlier. A decade later, 980,000 replied similarly. In addition to this fourfold increase, today’s return migrants tend to stay in Mexico to a much larger extent than in previous periods.
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swe1304cYou Can Go Home Again: Mexican Migrants Return in Record Numbers
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source: http://www.dallasfed.org/assets/documents/research/swe/2013/swe1304c.pdf
