ENGC82H3 Lecture 2: Week 2
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U. s. border crisis: https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=xcfpayppm28 france24: mexico: the train of nightmares https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=fhdsyopuynw. Honduran migration: of those people who leave, 72% are men and 28% women. Honduras, in particular, has become one of the poorest countries in the global south, with more than half of its population living in poverty . Hurricane mitch in 1998 caused major damage to an already weak economy and destroyed many fruit fields: many multinational fruit companies left. 80,000 annual attempts of which 25% (or 20,000) are successful. Although the overall number of honduran migrants legally admitted to the united states lags behind the numbers of legal migrants from el salvador and guatemala, the increasing presence of hondurans can be explained by high undocumented migration (puerta, 2005) Motivations and expectations: motivations: politics, self development, aspirations for children and the pursuit of studies as main motivations for migration. To apply for a tourist visa to the united states citizens have to make an appointment with the.
