Implications of Transnational Care-Giving on those 'Left Behind': The New Form of the 'Development of Underdevelopment' Thesis in the late 20th and 21st Centuries (original) (raw)

Abstract

An investigation of how the migration of young women/mothers from Mexico to the United States impacts those ‘left behind’, gender roles and family structure. The findings of this thesis show that the migration of young women/mothers is having a primarily negative impact on (1) physical health and economics; (2) education and development implications and; (3) emotional and social development suggesting that there is a ‘gap’ in care which is occurring in the Mexican family created by the absence of mothers and the inability/unwillingness of fathers to assume childcare responsibilities. This ‘gap’ in care in Mexico is part and parcel of a global ‘gap’ in countries of the South that export, promote or facilitate the out-migration of young women/mothers to work in countries of the North for the purpose of securing economic remittances without uttering mechanisms and systematic processes in place that would ensure the well-being of children and families left behind.

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