Mexico's International Migration as a Manifestation of its Development Pattern

This paper summarizes the view on the broader structural determinants of the illegal flow held by Mexican scholars concerned with the problem. In the first section, some of the aspects of the country's economic and technological structures are examined; in the second, certain features of the modernization process are dealt with; in the third, an analysis is made of one component of the Mexican migratory flow into the United States; in the last,” the migratory flow, seen in the context of the system of ‘peripheral’ and ‘central’ economies, is discussed.