Mexico to USA Flashcards
Push factors (away from Mexico)unemplyment
40% unemployed mainly in farming (poor soils + unreliable rainfall)
Push factors (away from Mexico) GNP
$3750
Push factors (away from Mexico)Literacy rate
87%
Push factors (away from Mexico)Life expectancy
72 years
Pull factors (to USA)Jobs
Many jobs avaliable (low skilled) earn more money in 2/3 months than in a year back home
Pull factors (to USA) GNP
$24,750
Pull factors (to USA) Literacy
99%
Pull factors (to USA) Infant mortality
8/1000
Push factors (away from Mexico) Infant mortality
36/1000
Pull factors (to USA) Life expectancy
76 years
Effect of migration on Mexico Negitive
- Depopulation of villages
- Men leave the woman and children behind (farm productivity falls so loss of money)
- Men used to migrate and when they has enough money return now they stay in USA
- Yound people tend to migrate leaving ageing communities behind
- Woman outnumber men and they have prblems finding suitable marriage partners
- birth rates fall beacause the man are not aorund to repopulate
Effect of migration on Mexico Positive
- Money is sent back by migrants (recent figures $6 bilion)
- therefore increases standard of living
Effect of mirgration on USA Negitive
- Mexicans take jobs of the Americans
- They cost money to health and social services
- They send money out of the country
- Racial prejudice
- Americans belive the border could be used by terrorists
Effect of mirgration on USA Positive
- Mexicans do the jobs that Americans won’t e.g. ranch work, bars ,cleaning and picking cotton
- they work long hours for low pay
- Many migrants do not stay long (seasonal jobs) and do not get unemployment pay
- Some migrants are highly trained and needed by USA
- Without the Mexians, factories would have to close
