Mexican Immigrants: Upward Mobility

 
 
 
 
A. Mexican immigrants struggle to achieve upward mobility.

B. The two main reasons upward mobility is difficult for Mexican immigrants are a lack of education and work skills.

A. Staying in one place and unwillingness to move outside the community hampers upward mobility.

B. Illusions surrounding the American/California Dream also thwart upward mobility for Mexican immigrants.

C. Lack of education and a changed U.S. economy undermined chances for upward mobility for Mexican immigrants.

D. The U.S. hourglass economy and gaps in income and education between Mexican immigrants and white Americans continue to thwart upward mobility.

E. To succeed, many Mexican immigrants feel like they must separate themselves from their own ethnic conclaves.

A. Until educational opportunities and work skill training become readily available to Mexican immigrants, it is unlikely they will achieve upward mobility in significant numbers. Introduction

Mexican immigrants continue to struggle in the U.S. to achieve upward mobility. Though previous waves of immigrants to the U.S. arrived unskilled and uneducated like many Mexican immigrants, never before have so many immigrants arrived from one country or settled into so relatively few states. Because of this, Mexican immigrants have reached critical mass in many areas like Southern California. This enables Mexican immigrants to form much greater cohe


     
 
 
 
    

 

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ding illusions about the American Dream and California's dwindling capacity to offer a high quality of life to its continually growing diverse population of residents. All Allmendinger (2005) maintains, "Versions of the California Dream are as various as the people who come here in search of fulfillment. Yet every dream, it seems, has a similar sequel, one that spells disillusion" (320). For instance, not everyone seems welcome to share the dream. Various propositions have been passed in California that prevent immigrants and their children without legal status from receiving health care or economic assistance for education. Hispanic children are much less likely to enroll in college than their white counterparts, and those that do attend are much less likely to graduate. In addition, while immigrant parents may compare their experience in America with their former lives in Mexico and feel they are progressing, children of such immigrants compare their lives to those of white Americans and find them sorely lacking in comparison. Mexican immigrant youths are not content to occupy dead-end jobs in the agriculture industry, as servants and household help, or as busboys as many of their parents did. Many wind up joining gangs b

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