China's "tidal wave" of migrant labor: what can we learn from Mexican undocumented migration to the United States?
Roberts, K.D.
International Migration Review 31(2): 249-293
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 0197-9183 PMID: 12292872 DOI: 10.2307/2547220Document Number: 269925
"The purpose of this article is to place Chinese labor migration from agriculture within the context of the literature on labor mobility in developing countries by comparing it to undocumented Mexican migration to the United States. The similarities fall within three general areas: the migration process, the economic and social position of migrants at their destination, and the agrarian structure and process of agricultural development that has perpetuated circular migration. The last section of the article draws upon these similarities, as well as differences between the two countries, to generate predictions concerning the development of labor migration in China."