This document summarizes an interview with the student's mother, Martha Gonzalez, about her immigration to the United States from Mexico City in 1990. Some key details provided are that Martha was born in 1966 in Mexico City and immigrated to the US at age 25. She decided to immigrate due to economic push factors in Mexico like a lack of job opportunities and pull factors in the US like better employment and education opportunities. The document also provides definitions for terms like immigration, push factors, and pull factors.

1. Family History Project
Part Five.
Betzabel Sanchez
Geography 10
Dec. 9, 2015

2. My interview
I based my project on the information my mother gave me when
I Interviewed her.
• Martha Gonzalez
• Born: July 13,1966
• Born and raised: Mexico City
• At what Age did she come to the States: 25 years old.
• Immigrated in: 1990

3. Terms
• Immigration
• Economic Factors
• Push Factors
• Pull Factors
• Education
• Economy

4. Immigration
• Immigration: The action of coming to live
permanently in a foreign country.
• My mother decided to immigrate to the U.S in 1990 as part of
the Fourth Wave of Immigration.
• This choice was due to the economic factors at home,
knowing there was so many opportunities in the U.S
encouraged them to come here.

5. Economic Factors
• Economic factors are particularly important with
regards to migration.
• There can push or pull factors when it comes to the
Economic Factor whether it’s a positive or negative.
• Mexico’s economy has never been stable.
• My mother needed a higher paying job to help her
family.

6. Push Factors
• Push Factors: A force that drives people away from a
place.
• Main push factors that pushed my mother to leave
her country were..
• Lack of job opportunities
• Education
• Political Issues, corruption

7. Pull Factors
• Pull Factors: Is what draws people to a new
location.
• The main Pull Factors that influenced my mother
were:
• Employment opportunities
• Economic opportunities
• Greater educational opportunities
• Overall a greater lifestlye

8. Education
• Education: the process of receiving or giving
systematic instruction, especially at a school or
university.
• My mother only finished high school when she was living in
Mexico.
• She wanted us to go college have our career, wanted us to be
independent.
• Mexico’s education is very different from the education here,
no one really pays attention to it unless you have money.