A Generation of Migrants.
Part of a special section on the effect of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on Mexican workers. Since the 1990s, the number of Mexican immigrants has risen as a result of a lack of access to the means of making or earning a dignified existence at home. The Mexican regions from...
| Publicado en: | NACLA Report on the Americas Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 31 - 38 |
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North American Congress on Latin America
July/August 2005
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| Sumario: | Part of a special section on the effect of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on Mexican workers. Since the 1990s, the number of Mexican immigrants has risen as a result of a lack of access to the means of making or earning a dignified existence at home. The Mexican regions from which immigration to the U.S. is taking place are diversifying, as are the destinations of these immigrants in the U.S. However, many of the positions that Mexican immigrants are filling in the U.S. are poorly paid and offer no opportunity for movement up the social class structure. |
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