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BACKGROUND 
After a meeting of the Migration and Consular Affairs Group of the Mexican-United States Binational Commission in March 1995, the governments of Mexico and the United States decided to undertake a joint study of migration between the two countries. Research teams in each country studied each of five aspects of migration within their country and collaboratively analyzed the findings. National coordinators were designated for each country with the Commission on Immigration Reform coordinating the work of U.S. researchers. The main objective of the Binational Study is to contribute to a better understanding and appreciation of the nature, dimensions, and consequences of migration from Mexico to the United States. It also provides an opportunity to identify options to respond to these movements. 
 

NATIONAL COORDINATORS AND STAFF 

U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform 

Susan Martin, Executive Director, National Coordinator 

B. Lindsay Lowell, Senior Research Analyst 

Deborah Meyers, Program Analyst 

Mexican Coordinators 

Enrique Loaeza Tovar, Coordinador Nacional de México, Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores 

Carlos Planck, Coordinador Adjunto, Secretaría de Gobernación 

Remedios Gómez Arnau, Secretaria Técnica del Estudio Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 

1. Quantification of Migration 

Frank D. Bean, University of Texas at Austin*

Rodolfo Corona, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte*

Rodolfo Tuirán, Consejo Nacional de Población

Karen A. Woodrow-Lafield, Mississippi State University

2. Characteristics of Migrants 

Jorge Bustamante, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte*

Guillermina Jasso, New York University*

Edward J. Taylor, University of California at Davis

Paz Trigueros, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

3. Factors that Influence Migration

Agustín Escobar Latapí, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social*

Philip Martin, University of California at Davis*

Katharine Donato, Louisiana State University

Gustavo López Castro, El Colegio de Michoacán

4. Effects of Migration 

Marta Tienda, Princeton University*

Gustavo Verduzco, El Colegio de México*

Michael J.Greenwood, University of Colorado

Kurt Unger, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas

5. Responses to Migration 

Francisco Alba, El Colegio de México*

Sidney Weintraub, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.*

Rafael Fernández de Castro, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

Manuel García y Griego, University of California at Irvine

* Core Group/Member Lead