Mexico, Trade and Migration

Click here to view our newly released book online:
The Right to Stay Home:
Alternatives to Mass Displacement and Forced Migration in North America


Also check out
Mexico Unconquered:
Chronicles of Power and Revolt

by Global Exchange Human Rights Fellow
John Gibler

Mexico sends more migrant workers across its borders than any other country in the world. Almost 500,000 undocumented Mexicans emigrate to the United States every year, most of them crossing the border to seek employment in the agriculture, construction and service industries. In response, policy propositions—such as building higher walls along the border, expanding guest worker programs, and even deporting all 12 million undocumented workers—have missed the primary root cause of the issue: the economic displacement of those workers in Mexico.


About the Mexico Program
Learn about our current work to create binational debate on the need to link U.S.-Mexico trade and migration polices. Also check out who we are and the program's archive of previous work.
Roots of Migration
Delve into reports that highlight how the issue of economic displacement in Mexico needs to be better integrated into the immigration debate.
News Updates
Read all the important news relating to our work in Mexico.
Mexico Correspondent John Gibler
On the ground reporting from Global Exchange's Human Rights Fellow
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