Essay On Remittance

Remittance is defined as a migrant worker sending money to their families in their homeland. The concept of remittance has been an interest in most recent years, especially concerning the Mexican peoples. In 2013, migrant workers sent about 68.3 million dollars back home. That number is only a fraction of what makes up the total GDP of America. The majority of migrant Mexican peoples that reside in the United States take up jobs that require hard labor such as construction, housekeeping, and cooking. While doing all of this intense labor, they are payed less than the average minimum wage worker. A large portion of these migrants work in the city of Los Angeles all for a fraction of what they are worth. So we ask ourselves why? Why do these people come to Los Angeles, one of the most money wealthy cities in America, to take on jobs that give them little pay just to send off to their families? In order to broaden our understanding of the negative and positive aspects of remittance, I have stepped into the cities of Boyle Heights and Downtown Los Angeles’ Olvera Street to interview a few of the people that practice this concept.
Let us start by describing the idea that draws people to Los Angeles. The most populous city in California has long been a
In speaking to many different individuals, I have found that normally, only one or two members of a family choose to come to Los Angeles. The average family size in a Mexican household is six people; the cost of living for six people is drastically larger than the cost of living for only one or two members. As a consequence of sending less people, they are able to take the money and send it back to their families, where the value of the American Dollar is much higher in Mexico and they are able to get a better use out of the