Mexican Immigration: History, Factors of Migration, and Impact in the United States

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Mexican Immigration History, Factors of
Migration, and Impact in the United States

• Gloria Castañeda

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Introduction

• Border
• Great Depression
• WWII
• Bracero program
• Thesis

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History

• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
• Porfirian Age (FDI in Mexico)
• WWII
• Braceros
• Programs in U.S. factors
• in Mexico

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Factors of Mexican Migration(in Mexico)

• Pull Factors
• Job opportunities
• Low wages
• Poverty and inequality
• Overpopulation
• Corruption
• Education

• Push Factors
• Relationships (Networks)

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Mexicans in the U.S.

• Population growth
• Population Mixed unmixed

• Social conditions
• Occupations wages
• Economic conditions
• Education

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Impact in the U.S.

• Immigrants
• As substitution
• Low-skilled workers and other immigrants (10-.1)
• As complements
• They put upward pressure on wages

• Capital mobility
• Inflow of capital and out-migration of natives
• In-migration of natives to areas of few
  immigrants
• .1 percent increase in real income of natives

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Policy Conclusion

• Emigration is only a small share of Mexicos
  population
• 15 of Mex. Labor force
• Immigrants are a minority of the U.S. population
• 3 (2002)
• Circular pattern
• Immigration is two-way lane.
• Xenophobia