An estimated 870,000 Mexican migrants came to the U.S. between 2013 and 2018, while an estimated 710,000 left the U.S. for Mexico during that period. That translates to net migration of about 160,000 people from Mexico to the U.S., according to government data from both countries.

In the period from 2009 to 2014, by contrast, about a million people left the U.S. for Mexico while 870,000 Mexicans made the reverse trip, for a net migration of about 130,000 people from the U.S. to Mexico. A similar trend from 2005 to 2010 resulted in effectively zero net migration between the two countries.

There are several potential reasons for the changing patterns of migration flows between the two nations. In the U.S., job losses during the Great Recession of 2007-2009 in industries in which immigrants tend to be heavily represented may have pushed a large number of Mexicans to migrate back to Mexico, which in the aftermath of the recession also made the U.S. less attractive to potential Mexican migrants. In addition, stricter enforcement of U.S. immigration laws both at the southwest border and within the interior of the U.S. may have contributed to the reduction in Mexican immigrants coming to the U.S. in the years leading up to 2013.

Some changing patterns in Mexico could also be behind the reduction in the number of immigrants coming to the U.S. since the Great Recession. First, growth in the working-age population of Mexicans has slowed due to a decades-long decline in the average number of births among women in Mexico. Lower fertility rates also mean smaller family sizes, which reduces the need for migration as a means of family financial support. Coupled with this, the Mexican economy over the past two decades has been more stable than in the 1980s and 1990s when the country was hit by a number of profound economic crises.

There are three distinct sources of Mexico-U.S. migration flow:

the oldest stream from rural communities in central-western Mexico,

an incipient stream from interior urban areas

small but steady stream from Tijuana, a northern border city.

Using the Mexican Migration Project data with expanded geographic coverage, these streams differ in the origin community in terms of

family-based migration-related social capital

internal migration experience

labor force participation shapes the likelihood that men in the community initiate

continue migratory trips.

The patterns of Mexican migration that make up the flow from central Mexico to northern Mexico and the U.S.;

(1) the well-established flow of mostly undocumented low-skill agricultural labor migrants originating in the rural areas of central western Mexico and moving directly to the U.S.;

(2) a new stream of mostly undocumented U.S.-bound migrants from urban interior communities with a greater range of human capital;

(3) internal migrants who move to Tijuana as a final destination, and

(4) career migrants who make Tijuana a home base for making repeated, mostly undocumented, trips to the U.S.

Direction : 

Read the above scenario and with the support of the additional resources and answer the question

1. Explain in your own words about Mexican “migration characteristics”,

2. Give your insight on the effects of rural-urban migration on Mexico

3. Research on the “ Migration development” and give the difference between rural and urban livelihood

4. Choose any sustainable development goal and connect it to the development of Romania

5. Discuss the difficulties faced by the people when they move from rural to urban areas in terms of work in Mexico

6. According to your research which gender will be concerned to migrate and give the reason

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1 Migration from Mexico to the United States generally falls into one of three categories agricultural workers moving to the United States to find wor... View the full answer