Immigrants in Nuevo León, México: life stories and work trajectories

Nuevo Leon, Mexico, has historically been a pole of attraction of population in the national scope, the growth registered in this geographic space of the last thirty years, is product in large part by the processes of immigration, encouraged by the economic growth of the sector industrial and servic...

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Autores principales: Bedoya-Rangel, Yuliet, Ávila-Sánchez, María de Jesús, Jáuregui-Díaz, José Alfredo, Picazzo-Palencia, Esteban
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México 2018
Acceso en línea:https://huellasdelamigracion.uaemex.mx/article/view/10250
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=mx/mx-011&d=article10250oai
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Sumario:Nuevo Leon, Mexico, has historically been a pole of attraction of population in the national scope, the growth registered in this geographic space of the last thirty years, is product in large part by the processes of immigration, encouraged by the economic growth of the sector industrial and services. The objective of this research is to account for the reasons why people decided to come to Nuevo León to stay, to know the life cycle at the time of migration, their education, as well as their integration into the labor market in NL, The social factors that allowed mobility and permanence in the state. In this article we will present the life stories of twelve migrants who came to Nuevo Leon from different states of Mexico from 1970 to 2015. One of the main findings of this research is that migration and its process is linked to the life cycle of each, but is crossed by family ties that allow support networks to be given so that migrants can successfully link society. On the other hand, among the interviewees it is observed that education has been an important factor in access to better jobs and better salaries.