Abstract

YBANEZ ZEPEDA, Elmyra  and  ALARCON, Rafael. Turbulencia económica, violencia y cambios migratorios en la frontera norte de México, 1990-2010. Migr. desarro [online]. 2014, vol.12, n.22, pp.61-90. ISSN 1870-7599.

The large population growth in states along the northern border of Mexico at the end of the 20th Century was mainly due to a significant immigration from other states within the country. This process was followed by a drop in the population growth rate that occurred as the result of a combination of reduced immigration and a growth of emigration in the first decade of the 21st Century. The main aim of this article is to describe and analyze the changes in the age structure of the population that have taken place in the past 20 years in the border areas between 1990 and 2010. Unemployment together with the perception of insecurity and violence have had an impact on the mobility of the population living in the Mexican northern border states, with repercussions in the population growth rates over the past decade and its consequences in the age population pyramids by 2010.

Keywords : Migration; age structure; economic crisis; insecurity; Mexican northern border.

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