WOMEN MIGRATION INCREASES
http://www.pewhispanic.org/files/2006/07/2006-gender-04.png
RISE OF UNDOCUMENTED MEXICAN IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES
The National Foundation of American Policy
WORKING IN THE UNITED STATES
The role of women was changing. They too began to work when they arrived to the United States. Another case study in Hellman’s The World of Mexican Migrants, Sara a Mexican Native living in Los Angeles in 1980 said:
“San Rafael[her town in Mexico] is a great place to live when you’re a young girl. But once you married you’re expected to live with your husband’s parents, and you’re not free to walk about the street or people will gossip about you and criticize you. It’s just crazy. I’m a woman of thirty and I wouldn’t have the freedom of a thirteen-year-old! I’m not kidding. When I was a girl, I played basketball every day after school with my friends. I ran through the streets alone and with my girlfriends. I even traveled by myself on the two-hour bus ride to work as a housemaid in Puebla, and no one said anything about it”.
POVERTY RATES DON’T REFLECT THEIR HARD WORK
Even though Mexican Migrants were working extremely hard, most of them still lived under or near the United States Poverty line.
1999 US Census http://www.cis.org/articles/2001/mexico/povert5.gif
