Mexican women in labor migration to the United States

Abstract

The demographic scenario of the international migration and specifically from Mexico to the United States has had significant changes, notable amongst those is the increasingly presence of women migrants not only as companions in a reunification process but also for their participation in the labor market. This article will present the trends of the female and male migratory flows with respect to their migratory and labor features through time (2000-2012), the information is retrieved from the database of the Encuesta sobre Migración en la Frontera Norte de México (EMIF Norte). The document displays succinctly the participation of the mexican women in the migratory process as labor migrants that conforms part of a new migratory pattern different from the traditional of family reunification, identified in the migration of mexicans to the United States. We also present the migratory flow characteristics of the group which the survey called Migrantes Procedentes del Sur que van a Estados Unidos (Migrants From the South who go to United States) and finally, we make some reflexions about the female and male migration differences in the migratory flow in the afore mentioned period.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/pdac.v10i0.1738

Revista Población y Desarrollo: Argonautas y Caminantes, Vol. 10, 2014: 55-68