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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

wives, rural Mexican migrants, gender roles, mental health

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

Psychology

Abstract

Rural Mexican communities near Irapuato, Guanajuato are an ideal place to discover the effects of migration on a population. This area of Mexico contains many villages known as “sending communities” due to a high number of migrants who mostly travel to and from the United States. These sending communities are unique in that those who leave are almost solely men and almost solely temporary migrants—that is, even if they are married or have children, they migrate alone, and not with the intent of long-term residence or attempts at citizenship. When men leave wives and children at home to become migrant earners, relationships and normal family roles are interrupted. Responsibilities, daily activities, discipline, and happiness can be modified when a father and husband is absent from the home. This project targets one group in this migrant milieu: the wives of migrant husbands. It attempts to discover what, if anything, actually changes in a woman’s happiness, and gender role, and attitudes toward traditional gender roles ideology when a she becomes a stay-at-home wife with a migrant husband.

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