Becoming U.S. Stakeholders: Legalization and Integration among Mexican Immigrants and Their Descendants

This report uses new data from two studies called Mexican Immigrant Migration and Mobility Status (MIMMS) and Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles (IIMMLA) to assess various aspects of the integration of the Mexican-origin population across multiple generations in the United States. These data sets, collected with the support of grants from the Hewlett and Russell Sage Foundations respectively, were obtained from telephone interviews conducted in 2004 with 1,461 respondents from the five-county Los Angeles metropolitan area who identified themselves as having been born in Mexico or having Mexican ancestry.