ABSTRACT OF PAPER
Title: Mexican migration policies: How do economists justify them?
Author: Bolaños Bernardo
Mexico has become the biggest producer of emigrants of the world. Mexico also receives the pressure of important flows of immigrants from Central and South America. We will describe the contradictory consensus about migration policies shared by both left and right winged Mexican politicians. Then we will discuss the viability of a new consensus. A fair migration policy should balance the respect of the freedom of movement against the reciprocity of foreign countries in the respect of that freedom. It will be claimed that it is legitimate to tax foreign residents more than nationals in order to finance the access of the former to local public services if, reciprocally, nationals are taxed more abroad.
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