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  • Title: [Internal migration. Geographic mobility: search for well-being].
    Author: Corona Vazquez R.
    Journal: Demos; 1988; ():7-8. PubMed ID: 12158031.
    Abstract:
    Interstate migrations have increased in the past 4 decades in Mexico. The number of Mexicans living in a state other than that of origin increased from slightly over 2 million in 1940 to 5 million in 1960 and 11.6 in 1980. The 558% in migrants exceeded the growth of national population of 342% in the same years. 10.7% of the residents of Mexico were migrants in 1940, 14.5% in 1960, and 17.5% in 1980. There were 89.6 male per 100 female migrants in 1940 and 92.4 males per 100 females in 1980. Most migrants are in the early working years. Among interstate migrants in 1979 for example, 43.5% were aged 15-29. Baja California Sur, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, Morelos, and Quintana Roo are strong attractions for migrants, with positive annual net migration rates from 1940-80. The Federal District and State of Mexico have been the most important migrant destinations in recent decades because metropolitan Mexico city is located within their borders. Nevertheless, the Federal District lost more than 1/2 million inhabitants between 1970-80. The state of Mexico had negative annual net migration rates before the midcentury and positive rates thereafter. 10 Mexican states have usually been net expellers of population since 1940: Durango, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosi, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Tlaxcala, Puebla, Michoacan, Guerrero, and Oaxaca. Together they account for slightly less than 1/2 of interstate outmigrants and receive about 10% of inmigrants. The proportion of the Mexican population living in these 10 states declined from 41.7% in 1940 to 29.6% in 1980. The principal destinations of outmigrants from the 10 states were the Federal District and the state of Mexico, which absorbed 45.5% in 1960 and 49.0% in 1980.
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