Mar 12, 2015
By Maria Luisa Hayem
Millions of people in Latin America and the Caribbean are affected in some way by migration. The women on whom I will focus in this blog face many challenges from the moment they decide to migrate. First, they say goodbye to their families, not knowing when they will see each other again. Then they must adapt to the country that receives them and find one or more jobs that will allow them to earn enough money so they can send some home to their country of origin, which is the reason many of them originally chose to leave.