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UCSD and ICF release book on Mexican migrants in San Diego County
 To better understand the needs and on-going challenges
of San Diego County’s Mexican migrant community,
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)’s Center for
U.S.-Mexico Studies (UCSD-USMEX) published a book
entitled The Ties that Bind Us: Mexican Migrants in San
Diego County. Co-edited by ICF’s President & CEO,
Richard Kiy, and UCSD Economics Associate Professor
Chris Woodruff, The Ties That Bind Us examines the
difficult living and working conditions of Mexican
migrant workers in San Diego County, California,
considering policy implications for both sides of the
US-Mexico border.
With chapters from authors representing UCLA, California
State University San Marcos, Tijuana’s Colegio de la
Frontera Norte, San Diego State University, and ICF, the
book highlights the circumstances of individuals who,
seeking to escape poverty, come to San Diego hoping to
exchange hard work for a chance to get ahead. Instead
they often find rampant discrimination, substandard and
severely overcrowded housing, a paucity of appropriate
health information and services, and untenable labor
conditions.
 In exploring some of the forces that drive them into the
migration stream, the authors also suggest steps for
alleviating their compromised life circumstances. They
argue, as well, for legalization of the migrant
population so that migrants can access the full range of
services available in the transborder region. In their
chapter, “Building the Case for Cross-Border Service
Provision for Transnational Mexican Migrants in San
Diego,” Kiy and ICF Senior Fellow Naoko Kada argue that
much can be gained by greater cross-border nonprofit and
governmental agency collaboration to address the growing
needs of SanDiego’s transnational migrant community.
The Ties that Bind Us can be ordered through Amazon
Books or directly through the publisher, Lynne Rienner
Publishing at
http://www.rienner.com/viewbook.cfm?BOOKID=1542&search
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