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This interview is part of Hannah Jessen's investigation into the lives of the mothers of migration. She is studying the relationship between mother and child, the ways they support their families in a new context, the new concerns that come with raising their children in a different country, and their hopes for their families and for themselves in…

Maria Figueroa is an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, majoring in economics and mathematics. Her family moved from Cuernavaca, Mexico to Hendersonville, North Carolina when she was ten years old because her parents were in search of better paying jobs. Both of Figueroa's parents have bachelor's degrees from Mexican…