[The new configuration of migratory exchanges between Mexico and the United States: the case of mid-sized cities in the state of Jalisco].

Migration between the urban areas of the State of Jalisco and the United States has undergone profound transformations in the last twenty years. These are apparent in the recent decrease of the flow of first time migrants and the migration balance; the growing participation of women in this flow; and in the diversity of activities carried out by the migrants both in their place of origin and in the United States....Migration is translated by an important transfer of currency mostly used for the support of the families of the migrants; by a shift in the activities of the migrants from wages towards different forms of self-employment; and by the sway of the primary and secondary sectors of economy towards the tertiary sector once the migrants reinstall themselves in their cities of origin. (SUMMARY IN ENG AND SPA) (EXCERPT)