Family Influences on Goals, Remittance Use, and Settlement of Mexican Immigrant Agricultural Workers in Minnesota

• Published in: Journal of comparative family studies Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 237 - 259
• Main Authors: Solheim, Catherine A., Rojas-García, Georgina, Olson, Patricia D., Zuiker, Virginia Solis
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Calgary Department of Sociology, University of Calgary 01.01.2012; University of Toronto Press
• Subjects: Agricultural Workers; Animal migration behavior; Children; Debt; Decisions; Family; Family members; Farmworkers; Homes; Housewives; Human migration; Immigrants; Immigration policy; International migration; Livestock; Mexico; Migration; Minnesota; Mothers; Noncitizens; Parents; Payments; Population; Qualitative research; Remittances; Social relations; Studies; Transnationalism; U.S.A; United States > US; Mexico

International migration to seek work and remit money home is an increasingly common family strategy to overcome financial hardship. However, little is understood about family involvement in the decision to leave or how family circumstances influence migration. This qualitative study analyzed narrati...