Anti-emigration strategy: Small Mexican towns try to create jobs at home
Tagged: MexicoPosted on: October 29th, 2007
Tamaula, Mexico – This town in the central state of Guanajuato is so isolated that its 50-some families just got electricity a year ago. There’s still no running water. Most of the men migrate north, to work in US factories or tobacco fields.
But Adriana Cortes, who waves to everyone she sees on the rough, half-hour drive up here, believes they can help curb migration here and in rural towns like it throughout the country. Her plan: create small cooperative enterprises to make communities self-sustaining.
In Tamaula, she is helping residents turn a small cheesemaking outfit into a factory and supporting efforts to build a job-training center to keep teenagers from leaving and lure the men back home.”*
Curation from Tomás
Filed Under: 1. Hispanic News, Eye Openers, Immigration, International
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