Population: Impacts on Donor Country (Mexico) Flashcards
Positive: Sending money back
People working in America send money to their families back home in Mexico
Positive: Returning with new skills
Migrants may return to Mexico with a new skills they have learned working in the USA.
Positive: Less overcrowding, pressure on services
Migration results in less overcrowding and therefore less pressure on services including housing and education.
Negative: Dangerous journey
The journey is dangerous and
many Mexicans lose their
lives every year trying to
cross into America
Negative: lack of economically active people
The lack of economically active people in Mexico negative impact Mexico’s
economy
Negative: Brain drain as more educated/skilled workers migrate
The higher educated more
skilled workers are migrating
for better pay resulting in a
“brain drain” in Mexico
