International migration- Mexico USA Flashcards
Pull Factors
1) more stable
2) lower crime rates
3) health care
4) existent migrant communities in Texas for example
5) better literary rate of 99% while only 86% in Mexico
6) 16 is the age when children finish school in the USA but 14 is the age they finish school in Mexico
Push Factors
1) high crime rates in Mexico
2) drug related crimes (47500 killed)
3) unemployment and poverty
4) 47 per cent of population live under the poverty line
5) Mexico is a very arid country which suffers from water shortage
6) 6% of the population lack of improved drinking water
7) undeveloped infrastructure
Positive impacts of migration to the USA
1) diversity increases as Mexicans bring their cultural traditions
2) Mexican food has become popular in the USA(Taco Bell)
3) Spanish is being thought in school thus widening skills of children and helps eradicate tensions
Negative impacts of migration to the USA
1) language barrier as common Mexican can’t speak fluent English
2) tension between migrants and local and this can lead to segregation and violence
3) immigrants increasing crime rates in drug trafficking (smuggling drugs into the USA)
Positive Experience of Mexican migrants
- family or male might send money back to Mexico
- they are economically active
- they are higher wages if they stay in Mexico
- share their culture with people in the USA
Negative experience of Mexican migrants
- dependant population is increasing with so many young people leaving
- leaving elderly and young infants behind that cannot work
- reducing birth rates
- no workforce to pay taxes to support the elderly in Mexico
Positive impact outwards on Mexico
- legal and illegal immigrants send 6 billion dollars a year back to Mexico
- send money back to their family
Negative impact on Mexico
- loss of brain power
- high dependency
- jobs are abandoned and need replacement
- Mexican countryside has a shortage of economically active people
- some places lost 2/3 of inhabitants
