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Deciding Where to Retire: Intended Retirement Location Choices of Formerly Undocumented Mexican Migrants

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  • Michael Bernabé Aguilera

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Objective. I use transnational theory to address how transnational relationships, behavior, and context influence retirement location choices of recently legalized immigrants. I also account for the relationship between assimilation and retirement location choices. Methods. To test these theories, I use the 1992 Legalized Population Survey to examine formerly undocumented Mexican immigrants' attachment to the United States through their intended retirement location, either the United States or Mexico. I use logistic regression to test whether the two theories are related with retirement location choices. Results. I find strong support for the role of transnational factors, thus widening the scope of the literature to include variables linking immigrants to their communities within Mexico. Conclusion. This study empirically tests and quantifies transnational theory using multivariate analysis, and adds to the transnational literature by suggesting that national boundaries are political constructs that do not completely contain social and economic systems.

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  • Michael Bernabé Aguilera, 2004. "Deciding Where to Retire: Intended Retirement Location Choices of Formerly Undocumented Mexican Migrants," Social Science Quarterly, Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 85(2), pages 340-360, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:socsci:v:85:y:2004:i:2:p:340-360
    DOI: 10.1111/j.0038-4941.2004.08502008.x
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    1. Feng Wang & Jin Fan & Ann Reisner & Hong Mi, 2017. "Health Consciousness, Smog Consciousness and Chinese Elderly Migrant Workers’ Preferred Retirement Place," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(11), pages 1-15, November.
    2. Alma Vega & Noli Brazil, 2015. "A multistate life table approach to understanding return and reentry migration between Mexico and the United States during later life," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 33(43), pages 1211-1240.
    3. Alma Vega, 2015. "The Impact of Social Security on Return Migration Among Latin American Elderly in the US," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 34(3), pages 307-330, June.

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