Garip, Filiz2013-07-122012Garip, Filiz. 2012. Discovering diverse mechanisms of migration: the Mexico-U.S. stream from 1970 to 2000. Population and Development Review 38(3): 393-433.0098-7921http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:10872801Migrants to the United States are a diverse population. This diversity, captured in various migration theories, is overlooked in empirical applications that describe a typical narrative for an average migrant. Using the Mexican Migration Project data from about 17,000 first-time migrants between 1970 and 2000, this study employs cluster analysis to identify four types of migrants with distinct configurations of characteristics. Each migrant type corresponds to a specific theoretical account, and becomes prevalent in a specific period, depending on the economic, social and political conditions. Strikingly, each migrant type also becomes prevalent around the period in which its corresponding theory is developed.en-USJournal Article2013-07-1210.1111/j.1728-4457.2012.00510.x