ANT 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Southwestern United States, Savings Account, Bracero Program
9 Dec 2017
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Push factors: local, economic and social conditions. Ex: family size relative to local resources. Ex: flight from countryside (due to mechanization, decrease in agricultural prices, too little land) Pull factors: wage rates in urban area, housing, factors to ease transition; strength of linkages between rural and urban areas. Myth/half-truth: migrants poor, unskilled labor in search of work. Fleeing industrializing countries; countries with higher growth rates. There is a marked tendency for the more educated and highly qualified members of the labor force to be geographically mobile. Buy land to build house back home. Migration and its impact on the place of origin. Creation of new market in destination country for imports of food. From the spanish brazos meaning people working with their arms. The mexico-us migration pattern is a rather recent one (mid 20th century) Allows mexican farm workers to work temporarily on farms in texas, california, and the southwest usa.
