Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the … migration as an economic phenomenon; but what about them matters? Properly, we should be looking at the determinants of identity …

Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the … data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …

Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant's country in the host region. Using … Mexican migration data, we analyze the effects of the usual network variable and two additional origin …

called the "ethnosizer". Using information on an individual's language, culture, social interactions, history of migration …

. -- migration ; assimilation ; political economy …