The Voices of Mexican Women Left Behind: Responses to their Challenges

Autor:	J. Rick Altemose, Dawn McCarty
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Economic forces Economic growth Health (social science) media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Immigration Vulnerability Gender studies Emigration Globalization Political science Rural area Empowerment Demography Qualitative research media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies. 8:284-300
ISSN:	1556-2956 1556-2948
Popis:	This article presents findings from a 2006–2008 transnational qualitative research study on the impact that undocumented immigration to the United States has on women left behind in Mexico. Three of the findings presented here are: (a) the identification of problems due to emigration as institutional, (b) the special vulnerability of adolescents and young adults in rural Mexico to the pressures to emigrate, and (c) the role changes for women inherent in their reported and observed responses to this crisis. While the youth of Central Mexico are particularly vulnerable to the economic forces of globalization, the women of their communities, their mothers, aunts, and grandmothers, despite what seems to be an overwhelming system of interconnected institutional barriers, are responding to increasing transnational migration of family and youth with initiatives of collective strength. These findings, along with their implications for work with formerly disempowered populations, are presented.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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