Immigration and the labor mobility of working Mexican legal residents at a border town in the United States: Calexico, California

Immigration and the labor mobility of working Mexican legal residents at a border town in the United States: Calexico, California

This paper describes the labor mobility of a group of Mexican migrant workers that are permanent legal residents in the city of Caléxico, Ca. USA. Since the beginnings of the XX century, this city has been a settlement of immigrants from different countries, among them stands out the Mexican immigra...

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Main Authors: Fimbres Durazo, Norma, Ortega Villa, Guadalupe
Format: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Language:spa
Published: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California 2001
Subjects:
immigration
Labor mobility
socioeconomic change
Social sciences
economy
capitalism
Demographics
Sociology
Social problems
immigrants
Political science
public administration
Inmigración
Movilidad laboral
Cambio socioeconómico
Ciencias sociales
Economía
Capitalismo
Demografía
Sociología
Problemas sociales
Inmigrantes
Ciencias políticas
Administración pública
Online Access:https://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/283
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Summary:This paper describes the labor mobility of a group of Mexican migrant workers that are permanent legal residents in the city of Caléxico, Ca. USA. Since the beginnings of the XX century, this city has been a settlement of immigrants from different countries, among them stands out the Mexican immigrant group that, legally or illegally, has arrived to work temporal or permanently. In order to have and approach to the study of the labor milility of the immigrant workers and identify some situations that made it possible, this paper presents an overview of the historic events that favored the immigration of Mexican workers to this city as well as their participation in the labor market.

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