Abstract

HUALDE ALFARO, Alfredo  and  ROSALES MARTINEZ, Yetzi. Professionals who emigrate. A comparison between Mexican nurses and engineers in the United States. Espiral (Guadalaj.) [online]. 2017, vol.24, n.70, pp.181-219. ISSN 1665-0565.

This paper explores the migration processes and labor incorporation of two professional groups of Mexicans in the United States: engineers and nurses. Certification standards, the ability of migrants to act as agents, and the involvement of various actors in the migratory process are analyzed in order to understand how differentiated labor paths are built within and between each occupational group in the US labor market. Other structural factors that helped to understand the processes studied were the motivations to migrate, family and professions networks, and gender.

Keywords : skilled migration; regulation; skills transfer; professionals; United States.