The number of Mexican immigrants entering the United States has been on the decline in recent years. But one group of immigrants is bucking the trend: entrepreneurs.
Elizabeth Salamanca Pacheco teaches international business at Universidad de las Américas Puebla, one of the leading private universities in Mexico. This past summer, as a visiting scholar at Rice University’s Baker Institute, Salamanca conducted a series of interviews with Mexican entrepreneurs who had immigrated to Houston.
“We tend to assume that all these people are going to [the] United States due to insecurity, and it’s true that insecurity is a main push factor, but it’s not the only one,” Salamanca says. READ MORE AT HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA
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