Is immigration enforcement shaping immigrant marriage patterns?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; Wang, Chunbei
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Merced; Vienna University of Economics & Business; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104242
• 发表日期: 2020
• 关键词: immigration enforcement; Undocumented immigrants; Mexican; family structure; intermarriage; United States

摘要

This paper identifies intermarriage (between non-citizens and citizens) as an important response mechanism to intensified immigration enforcement, particularly among Mexican non-citizens. Exploiting the temporal and geographic variation in the implementation of interior immigration enforcement from 2005 to 2017, we find that a one standard deviation increase in enforcement raises Mexican non-citizens likelihood of marrying a US. citizen by 3 to 7%. Both police-based and employment-based enforcement contribute to this impact. The analysis adds to a growing literature examining how immigrants respond to tightened enforcement and, importantly, sheds light on the recent growth of intermarriage among Mexican immigrants. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.