Feminization of the Mexican Migration to the United States
Keywords:
migration, migration profiles, feminization, Mexico, United StatesAbstract
This article analyzes the migration patterns of Mexicans in the United States, with particular emphasis on female migration. Mexican migration to the United States serves as an exemplification of the thesis according to which female mobility has its roots in migration theory of social capital, deriving from the assumption that family ties and connections predominate among the factors causing and facilitating women’s movement, both in their domestic and transnational dimension. Through several interdisciplinary migration theories that aim to explain the motivation behind human mobility, and along with the analysis of various features of migration flows: age, education, marital status among others, the article attempts to present in general terms a simplified definition of an average migrant women of Mexico in the US, comparing it with both a male migrant and female migrants of other nationalities. The analysis of Mexican migration to the United States provided in this article can also contribute to supporting the hypothesis about the feminization of global migration.
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