Mexican Immigration Sociology

Despite race and cultural differences, there was one similarity between immigrant groups and it was a dream for a new beginning and freedom from wars and religious persecutions. Many of whom would be known as Mexican Americans came to American believing this was a world of free jobs and would be paradise. The first wave of immigrants came occurring before World War II, most being agricultural workers, the U.S had a number of Mexican immigrants rising from 105,200 in 1900 in the NY area. The “Bracero” temporary worker program helped many immigrants with a few million temporary visas issued to Mexican workers but their journey here wasn’t easy. Many who struggled to get in to the United States waited despite having no food or money, but never gave up until they were recruited for labor jobs. After the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, this nation recruited an enormous
By the end of the depression, many immigrants worked in mining and ranching and had migrated North and East of the U.S for a more urban life. Having over 33 million Mexican Americans in the United States now in 2015, we can see how far we’ve come with contribution to the growing Latin American influence on the everyday life of all Americans. The nation's clothing, music, architecture, literature, and food have all been influenced by the growing Latin and Mexican American populations and have helped shape the United States we are today.
Immigration has come long before the 1900’s and another group of individuals who fled religious persecutions and hardship were Scots-Irish settlers whom migrated around the 1700’s. Even though the “Great Migration” developed passing 1718, they had attempted to migrate earlier in 1636 but had to abandon their voyage due to the weather conditions. The two groups of Scots-Irish migrants came from two areas whom