To evaluate this, you will need to understand the points that the authors are trying to make, and the methods they use to verify their points. Over the next two weeks, we will talk about how we can do this. Prefer to use foreign workers in jobs having low wages, and little opportunity for advancement. This is why migration starts. Once begun, migration develops a social infrastructure that enables movement on a mass basis.
International migration is strongly disposed to become a self-sustaining social process.
Social networks are maintained where there is a process of return migration. This helps to sustain the migrant flow. The point of Return to Aztlan is to illustrate why these six assumptions are useful in describing migration to Los Angeles. Returns to the basic argument that areas of Guadalajara and Los Angeles are the same social world. Massey et al.