Cirque du Soleil Among Private-Sector Firms Offering Jobs to Returning Mexicans Mexico News Daily | |
go to original April 10, 2017 |
Call centers in Tijuana are booming with people deported from the U.S. Their good English skills make them the perfect candidates to call Americans. From video journalist Brooke Binkowski in Mexico. (AJ+)
Mexicans deported from the United States are finding unexpected sources of employment, mainly in the private sector.
As part of a strategy set in motion by the National Immigration Institute (INM) called Somos Mexicanos (We’re Mexican), deportees are being added to a database through which employers can recruit them.
Such has been the case with Cirque du Soleil, the world’s largest theatrical producer, in the Riviera Maya. Their English-language skills landed jobs for 10 deportees at the Canadian entertainment company’s show called Joyá in Cancún.
Earning around US $600 per week in different positions, They are just the first: the company has already asked the INM for 40 more workers, said Somos Mexicanos coordinator Dalia García Acoltzi.
“These are people that have a great disposition to work.”
The pay might play a part in that disposition. Cirque du Soleil is offering about US $600 a week.
...So far, she continued, private enterprise has offered its full support in reintegrating deportees to the country’s workforce, something the state governments have yet to do. Only 14 out of 32 administrations have joined the strategy.
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