Psychosocial Factors in Border Zone Immigrants

The study explores and describes the psychosocial factors in the immigrants of the stop; being, the social context significant in the development of their autonomy, of the satisfaction with the life and the self-esteem therefore it is conditioned to the psychosocial patterns to generate a process of social integration. In the following, the theory of cumulative causality is taken into account for the development of the study. Author Douglas Massey with Jorge Durand (2003), taking up Myrdal whom they consider to be its main defender, base in this theory, that international migration tends to reconfigure the demographic structures of the expelling localities (where there is an inequality of economic and social development); Thus this theory states that there is a rearrangement, a repositioning and a recomposition in the social and economic structure, of the families of international migrants in their places of destination and origin.