Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 16:44:33 -0500
Subject: Re: Migration to Mexico


>From: "Paul Anthony Jolet" <jolet-AT-universe.uiwtx.edu>
>
>I am currently doing some research for my master's thesis for 
>gerontology, and am interested in a current migratory trend of 
>"retirement" age singles and couples to locations in Mexico.  I have 
>two questions:
>
>1.  Since the research available shows that when large numbers of 
>english speaking retirees move into any location in Mexico, they tend 
>not to learn the language, and to set up volunteer and support 
>systems similar to those in the US, is this colenization?

I think that the research may well show that when large numbers of any
migrant group move into any location, they tend to interact with each other
and to set up volunteer and support systems with which they're familiar.

In itself, that's probably not colonisation.  How you want to view this
kind of migration -- pleasant, unsavoury, colonising, liberatory, or
whatever -- probably needs to rely on more of the story than that.

cheers
Bram
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   Bram Dov Abramson                   bram-AT-tao.ca
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