Female Recent Immigration to the City of Mexico

Abstract

AbstractMexico City –as we know and experience it– is the result of a series of heteroclite processes, in which immigration dynamics and its sociodemographic characteristics constitute elements of utmost importance. The migratory flow of women into this huge city has not only produced some distinctive features but has also given rise to new social processes which have changed some of the tendencies observed in previous decades. Based on statistical information sources, this article casts a view on the recent immigration and the women who compose it, focusing on its location in urban space and the characteristics connected to household and working contexts these women move through. This has proved a complex phenomenon as it involves different and highly intense flows: Mexican and foreign women pouring in and settling down in differentiated etropolitan spaces where they are faced with the challenge of having to survive in the outskirts, take on jobs which underrate their civilian rights.