Lessons on survival from Central America
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Migration from Central America to the US in the late 1970s and early 1980s was a result of families moving out for survival as their national economies crumbled and not due to a breakdown of national culture. Economic hardship and recession forced Mayans to leave San Cristobal , Mexico for Houston, TX. From the beginning, the migration was a culturally-sustaining process and Mayas undertook a strategy of undocumented international migration to ease themselves from a period of economic stress.
Publication Name: Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0887-8218
Year: 1995
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Growth without prosperity plagues the borderlands
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Population booms and both legal and illegal immigration have flooded El Paso's job market with workers willing to work for a low wage. El Paso's birth rate of 2.2% between 1974 and 1990 has been twice more than the U.S. average. Migration from Mexico is one of the main reason for increasing number of workers in El Paso. In the El Paso-Juarez border area, immigration is seen by many businessman as desirable because of the low wage immigrants are willing to work for.
Publication Name: Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0887-8218
Year: 1995
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