Guanajuatense and Other Mexican
Immigrants in the United States: New Communities in Non-Metropolitan
and Agricultural Regions
by Victor Garcia, Ph.D.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
and
Laura Gonzalez Martinez, Ph.D.
The University of Texas at Dallas
Working Paper No. 47
December 1999
Abstract:
This working paper addresses the unprecedented growth of the
foreign and U.S.-born Mexican-descent population in non-metropolitan
and agricultural areas in the United States. It is organized
into four sections. This first part of the paper is a general
discussion of immigration from Guanajuato, Mexico, to these areas
of the country. The concentration of Mexicans in non-metropolitan
and agricultural areas is examined in the second section. The
third part describes examples of this concentration in two communities
in southeastern Pennsylvania. In the fourth and last section,
it is suggested that peasants from Guanajuato and other compatriots
not only immigrate to these areas, many migrate in order to continue
practicing subsistence agriculture in their homeland. Migration
allows them to pursue this important traditional economic activity.
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