This article provides a close-range study of conditions leading to illegal migration from a rural village in Mexico. It is one of the few available studies of illegal migration at its point of origin. Its primary concern is not individual psychological traits, but the social network of relationships and mutual obligations conditioning the decision to migrate.
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