Mexico, the second country with the most migrants in the world

In 2016, approximately 12.0 million Mexican migrants resided in the United States, 58% are married or live with their partner, of all of them 86% entered this country before 2006, that is, they have been residing in this country for more than 10 years, and only 1.9 million entered the American Union between 2006 and 2015.

In 2016, approximately 12.0 million Mexican migrants resided in the United States, 58% are married or live with their partner, of all of them 86% entered this country before 2006, that is, they have been residing in this country for more than 10 years, and only 1.9 million entered the American Union between 2006 and 2015.

According to a press release prepared by BBVA Bancomer and the National Population Council (CONAPO), the majority of Mexican migrants reside in California with 37%, followed by Texas with 22%, Illinois with 6% and Arizona with 5%.

Over the last few years, around 100,000 Mexicans have obtained US citizenship each year; in 2015 alone, it is estimated that at least 3.6 million Mexican migrants already have EU citizenship.

Among undocumented migrants in the United States, a group that is at risk from President Trump's anti-immigrant measures are dreamers, young people who were taken by their parents to this country from childhood and who are characterized by having high-school, university and post-graduate levels of education. As of 2016, around 750 dreamers are protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), of which 590,000 are Mexican.

Of Mexican migrants of working age, 83.31% of men indicated that they belonged to the labor force, while in the case of women their participation was 49.91% in 2016. In that year it is estimated that the average rate of unemployment among Mexican males was 4.4%, while for females it was 6.4%.

Mexican migrants in countries other than the EU

2% of all migrants, or 300,000 migrants, reside in a country other than the EU. Countries such as Canada, Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom and France have grown in importance in recent years as destinations for Mexican migrants.

Among the most important communities of Mexican migrants outside the United States are Ontario and Toronto in Canada with 31,000 migrants, the cities of Madrid and Catalonia with 26,000, the metropolitan area of London and the South East region in the United Kingdom with 9,000, the city of Paris and the state of Bayern where the city of Munich in Germany is located with 6,000 and 3,000 migrants respectively.

Returnees and minors

Among migrants returning voluntarily or forcibly to the national territory, 29% returned to rural areas, 17% to semi-urban areas and 54% to urban areas. More than half of the returnees are male, and three out of four are between 20 and 50 years old.

The migration of girls, boys and adolescents to Mexico and the United States reached an all-time high in 2016, after a reduction in this flow to the neighboring northern country during 2015.

In 2016, 59,692 unaccompanied minors were apprehended in the United States; on the other hand, 40,542 were apprehended in Mexico, of which 17,889 were unaccompanied by an adult. Of the unaccompanied minors seized in the EU, 68% are between 15 and 17 years old, and 33% are women, the statement said.

Remittances

According to the World Bank, remittances sent around the world will reach 629 billion dollars in 2018 (comparable to the GDP of countries like Argentina and Saudi Arabia).

India, China, the Philippines, Mexico and France are the countries that receive the most remittances in the world, while the United States is the main sender, with around a quarter of all global remittances.

With around 9 million inhabitants in 2015, Mexico City has 1.6 million internal migrants who come mainly from the states of Puebla, Oaxaca, Veracruz, and Michoacán.

Between 2004 and 2014 around 85,000 people emigrated to the United States from Mexico City, mainly from the Gustavo A. Madero, Iztapalapa, Cuauhtémoc, Álvaro Obregón, and Miguel Hidalgo delegations.

In 2016, Mexico received 27 billion dollars in remittances, similar to the amount received by Direct Foreign Investment that year, and higher than the income from oil exports and foreign tourism.

In 2016 the entity received 1,400 million dollars in remittances, which are destined for more than 25,000 homes in the CDMX, Bancomer said in the statement.

Source: Economy Today