Migration-Trust Networks

In an important new application of sociological theories, Nadia Y. Flores-Yeffal offers fresh insights into how social networks function among immigrants who arrive in the United States from Mexico without legal documentation. She asks and examines important questions about the commonalities and differences in networks for this group compared with other immigrants, and she identifies “trust” as a major component of networking among those who have little if any legal protection.

Revealing the complexities behind social networks of international migration, the book provides an empirical and theoretical analysis of how social networks of international migration operate in the transnational context. The book clarifies how networking creates chain migration effects observable throughout history.

NADIA Y. FLORES-YEFFAL is herself an immigrant from Mexico whose status was regularized under the Amnesty of 1986. Her PhD is from the University of Pennsylvania.