Mexican Immigration History

I feel like I am making excellent progress with my family history project. I conducted initial interviews with my mother, father, and grandmother from which I gained a wealth of excellent information. I have also begun gathering relevant research on the state of the Colombian economy. Of particular interest to me has been the research that focuses on the industrialization of Colombia, modernity in Colombia, household formation, and the domestic economy. These topics in particular are extremely relevant to my father, mother, and grandmother who all grew up either during the industrialization of Colombia or shortly after, experiencing a lot of its effects in their labor patterns. It also makes the labor history of my parents much more dynamic in that they worked a large chunk of their lives in an industrializing country and then moved to an already-industrialized nation to continue their work. The differences in labor resulting from their migration will be extremely interesting to dive into and analyze. I am also very interested in analyzing the factors which caused them to immigrate to the U.S. and I plan to understand
But, many of the models we have seen assume a U.S.-centered family and do not account for migratory experiences or transnational economic interactions. My ethnic studies background will be useful here in highlighting how models are deficient in accounting for economic experiences outside a Western narrative of economic participation. The transnational migration theories I am employing will touch on many economic factors in the lives of immigrants, but will not necessarily contain hard statistics as other models/research would. I would love to get an idea of how best to supplement these theories to achieve the full economic potential of this