Mexican Immigration Case Study Essay

Case Study #1

The first case study I chose was “Mexican Government Advises Migrants.” (United Nations Association, 2014). I feel that globalization has made changes in these people’s lives by them seeing the opportunities from a different country, better schools, and technology access that their own country does not have. These people are mostly poor and seek a safer place to live. They see the opportunities that exist for others that their own children can have. I do not necessarily believe that the Mexican government is condoning illegally crossing the border, but they do have that obligation of keeping their citizens safe. When Mexican families cross over and familiarize themselves in the environment, they do not lose a sense of who

and sending money back is also a conflict. It has been said, by the President of the United States, that taxes would be attached to the remittances or equally a payment for the new border wall. (Gillespie, 2017). With globalization spreading faster with the use of technology, it has become easier to send money anywhere in the world. In 2006, remittance to Mexico was at 25.5 billion dollars and in 2016 it was 27 billion dollars. Mexico’s finance minister, Enrique Nieto, says that remittances are a critical component for the economic growth in developing countries. (Gillespie,

This study deals with jobs, mainly call center jobs that were outsourced to India from the United States being outsourced from India to places like the Philippines, Malaysia, and China.

Companies such as AT&T, Expedia, and JPMorgan Chase have hired call centers in the Philippines. (Not only have these jobs come from the U.S. but also from Europe. In this case, globalization changed many lives by bringing jobs to their country that were not readily available. The conflict of this change was that in India, English was spoken with a heavy accent which made many people in the U.S. angry. (I have called customer service, my cable company, and spoken to a person with an Indian accent. I do not have a problem with this because I know what it is like to speak another language and how hard they try to get it right. They are only