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Original Articles

The impact of IRCA on settlement patterns among Mixtec migrants in Tijuana, Mexico

Pages 109-128 | Published online: 21 Nov 2011

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  • Emily Young is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography at The University of Texas at Austin. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 88th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in San Diego, April, 1992. I thank Victor Clark Alfaro and Richard Slizeski for their help on this project. I am grateful to William E. Doolittle, Richard C. Jones, William M. Denevan, Gregory W. Knapp, Serge L. Dedina, Martin T. Cadwallader, Cynthia Truelove, and two anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments and suggestions. I would also like to thank the community members of colonia Obrera for their friendship and patience. This research was partially supported by a fellowship from the Tinker Foundation, through the University of Wisconsin‐Madison.

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