Global Migration SG2

Question 1

What is Mexico’s GDP per capita?

Answer 1

$19,000

Question 2

What is USA’s GDP per capita?

Answer 2

$57,000

Question 3

What is Mexico’s HDI?

Answer 3

0.7

Question 4

What is USA’s HDI?

Answer 4

0.9

Question 5

What is the % of Mexico’s population living under the poverty line?

Answer 5

46%

Question 6

What is the % of USA’s population living under the poverty line?

Answer 6

15%

Question 7

What is Mexico’s Gini Coefficient?

Answer 7

0.48

Question 8

What is USA’s Gini Coefficient?

Answer 8

0.45

Question 9

What is Mexico’s Net Emigration Loss?

Answer 9

-1.7/1000

Question 10

What % of Mexico’s native population live abroad?

Answer 10

11%

Question 11

What are four intervening obstacles for Mexicans migrating to America?

Answer 11

Deserts (e.g. Arizona), Rivers (e.g. Rio Grande), Coyotes (paid to smuggle illegal immigrants into USA), 2,000 mile long Mexico/US border

Question 12

What is the Bracero Program?

Answer 12

In 1940s-60s US allowed Mexican farm labourers to work legally in the US in a seasonal basis, employing 4.5 million workers

Question 13

What did US do to ensure Mexicans returned home at the end of the farming season as part of the Bracero Program?

Answer 13

10% of their wages were withheld until the workers returned to Mexico

Question 14

What is Operation Wetback?

Answer 14

In 1950s the US Government launched the operation to deport the growing numbers of illegal Mexican migrant workers who had crossed the border illegally or stayed behind after the end of the Bracero agricultural season

Question 15

What is the Immigration and Nationality Act (1965)?

Answer 15

A strict quota on the number of Mexican migrant workers per year allowed into the US, leading to a 2 year waiting list and the start of a wave of illegal Mexican immigrants into the US

Question 16

What are the Maquilas?

Answer 16

In Mid 1960s 13,000 US factories relocated to Mexico border towns to take advantage of growing unemployment, cheap labour and free trade to foreign owned factories in border towns

Question 17

What is the Immigration Reform and Control Act (1986)?

Answer 17

Legalised over 2 million unauthorised Mexicans in return for tougher border enforcement and penalties for American employers who hired unauthorised workers

Question 18

What is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (1994)?

Answer 18

Economic integration between Mexico, US and Canada, A free trading bloc but not the free movement of people

Question 19

What are the top 5 destination countries for Mexican migrants?

Answer 19

USA, Canada, Spain, Germany, Guatemala

Question 20

Why do Mexican’s migrate to USA?

Answer 20

Economic migration - higher wages and better job opportunities in US

Question 21

Why do Mexican’s migrate to Canada?

Answer 21

Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (CSAWP) allowing entry into canada for low to mid-level skilled farm workers for up to eight months a year to fill labour shortages

Question 22

Why do Mexican’s migrate to Spain?

Answer 22

Similarities in language and culture, Recruit from Mexico to operate in Mexican or Spanish companies in high positions

Question 23

Why do people migrate from US to Mexico?

Answer 23

American entrepreneurs investing in Mexico, Returning with American born children, Deportation, Voluntary migration

Question 24

Why do people migrate from Guatemala to Mexico?

Answer 24

Trans migrants on their way to USA due to political instability, natural disasters and a lack of economic opportunities in Guatemala

Question 25

Why do people migrate from Spain to Mexico?

Answer 25

More opportunities for entrepreneurship, European financial crisis - unemployment in Spain reached 25% in Mexico only 4.8%