U.S. job and spatial mobility are compared here for recent returnee migrants from two Mexican areas - Rio Grande, Zacatecas, in the interior; and Nueva Rosita-Muzquiz, Coahuila, near the U.S. border. Results suggest that the interior migrants fit a hierarchical migrant model, while border migrants fit a shuttle migrant model. -from Authors

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