【摘要】A common perception is that immigrants, including illegal immigrants, use dispropor-tionate public aid and select locations based on characteristics of services offered. This paper asksto what extent geographic clustering of undocumented immigrant agricultural laborers in the U.S.is correlated with take-up of public aid broadly defined. Evidence from a nationally representativefarmworker survey does not support welfare migration for undocumented immigrants, who have beenpreviously unidentifiable in the literature. The paper, therefore, challenges existing notions of welfaremigration by illegal immigrants that have inspired state-level public policy initiatives.

【文献来源】Pena A A.Journal of Regional Science.2014（1）