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Mexican-Americans and Mexican immigrants to America experience high rates of poverty that persist despite their relative family stability. This book´s empirical analysis of the issues includes historical context as well as discussion of undocumented migrants.

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This book provides a comprehensive portrait of the experience of poverty among Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants in the US. Given that these two groups experience some of the highest rates of poverty of any ethnicity and that it persists even while a majority work and reside in dual parent households, it becomes imperative that we explore a multitude of related factors. This book offers a systematic empirical analysis of these groups in relation to other ethnic groups, explores the individual and contextual factors associated with the determination of poverty via the use of logistic and multi-level models, details the historical context associated with Mexican immigrants, and discusses the major policies that have impacted them. It discusses the newest destinations of Mexican immigrants and also provides a discussion of undocumented migrants. Further, it details the current measure of poverty in the United States and offers a number of alternatives for modeling and measuring it.

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Acknowledgements
Table of contents
List of figures
List of tables
Nomenclature
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Prior Studies
Chapter 3: Settlement and Geographic Redistribution Patterns
Chapter 4: Data and Methods
Chapter 5: Individual Level Results: Mexican Americans
Chapter 6: Individual Level Results: Mexican Immigrants
Chapter 7: Multilevel Analysis and Results
Chapter 8: Implications and Policy Suggestions
Chapter 9: Conclusion
References
Index
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C

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