Mexican perceptions on rural development and migration of workers to the United States and actions taken 1970-1988.

This paper is a brief review of the main actions taken by the Mexican government in the 1970s and 1980s concerning the migration of workers to the United States. It gives an overview of the governments apparent perception of the demographic phenomenon and its explicit economic policy strategies for handling it. In other words it examines government actions in favor of rural development and the relationship of those actions to the flow of Mexicans to the United States. (EXCERPT)