Dystopian Travels in Gringolandia: Engendering Ethnicity Among Mexican Migrants to the United States

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew C. Gutmann
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mexican Migrants

Specters of Belonging

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrián Félix
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Mexican Migrants ◽  
Mexican State ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Mexican Migrant ◽  
Transnational Citizenship

In the context of research on the “thickening” of borders, Specters of Belonging raises the related question: How does transnational citizenship thicken across the political life cycle of Mexican migrants? In addressing this question, this book resembles what any good migration corrido (ballad) does—narrate the thickening of transnational citizenship from beginning, middle, to end. Specifically, Specters of Belonging traces Mexican migrant transnationalism across the migrant political life cycle, beginning with the “political baptism” (i.e., naturalization in the United States) and ending with repatriation to México after death. In doing so, the book illustrates how Mexican migrants enunciate, enact, and embody transnational citizenship in constant dialectical contestation with the state and institutions of citizenship on both sides of the U.S.-México border. Drawing on political ethnographies of citizenship classrooms, the first chapter examines how Mexican migrants enunciate transnational citizenship as they navigate the naturalization process in the United States and grapple with the contradictions of U.S. citizenship and its script of singular political loyalty. The middle chapter deploys transnational ethnography to analyze how Mexican migrants enact transnational citizenship within the clientelistic orbit of the Mexican state, focusing on a group of returned migrant politicians and transnational activists. Last, the final chapter turns to how Mexican migrants embody transnational citizenship by tracing the cross-border practice of repatriating the bodies of deceased Mexican migrants from the United States to their communities of origin in rural México.

scholarly journals Circular, Invisible, and Ambiguous Migrants: Components of Difference in Estimates of the Number of Unauthorized Mexican Migrants in the United States

Demography ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 411
Author(s):  
Frank D. Bean ◽  
Rodolfo Corona ◽  
Rodolfo Tuiran ◽  
Karen A. Woodrow-Lafield ◽  
Jennifer van Hook
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mexican Migrants

scholarly journals Mexico: «the population explosion» and mass migration

2017 ◽  
pp. 56-62
Author(s):  
Nadejda Kudeyarova
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mexican Migration ◽  
Mexican Migrants ◽  
Migratory Activity ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
Demographic Processes ◽  
Migration Analysis

The debate over the Mexican migrants issue has been intensi ed by Donald Trump’s election. His harsh statements have provoked a discussion on the US policy for Mexico, as well as on the migration regulation in the United States. However, the mass migration of the last quarter of XX - beginning of XXI centuries may be also readily associated with the social and demographic processes developed in Mexico throughout the 20th century. The dynamics of migratory activity followed the demographic changes. The internal causes of the Mexican migration analysis will allow more clarity in understanding contemporary migration interaction between the two neighboring countries.

Repeat Migration in the Age of the “Unauthorized Permanent Resident”: A Quantitative Assessment of Migration Intentions Postdeportation

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 1186-1217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel E. Martínez ◽  
Jeremy Slack ◽  
Ricardo D. Martínez-Schuldt
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Multivariate Analyses ◽  
The United States ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Mexican Migrants ◽  
Permanent Resident ◽  
Repeat Migration ◽  
The Impact

Drawing on postdeportation surveys ( N = 1,109) with Mexican migrants, we examine the impact of immigration enforcement programs and various social factors on repeat migration intentions. Our multivariate analyses suggest immigrants with strong personal ties to the United States have higher relative odds of intending to cross the border again, even when controlling modes of removal from the United States. Our findings highlight the inevitable failure of immigration policy and enforcement programs when placed against the powerful pull of family and home. These findings shed greater insight on the complex nature of unauthorized migration in an era of increased securitization and deportation.

scholarly journals International Emigrant Selection on Occupational Skills

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Patt ◽  
Jens Ruhose ◽  
Simon Wiederhold ◽  
Miguel Flores
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
The United States ◽  
Selection Combining ◽  
Mexican Migrants ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Type Selection ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
Worker Characteristics ◽  
Economic Motives

Abstract We present the first evidence on the role of occupational choices and acquired skills for migrant selection. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican task survey with rich individual-level worker data, we find that Mexican migrants to the United States have higher manual skills and lower cognitive skills than nonmigrants. Results hold within narrowly defined region–industry–occupation cells and for all education levels. Consistent with a Roy/Borjas-type selection model, differential returns to occupational skills between the United States and Mexico explain the selection pattern. Occupational skills are more important to capture the economic motives for migration than previously used worker characteristics.

The Linkage of Life Course, Migration, Health, and Aging

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 1116-1140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verónica Montes de Oca ◽  
Telésforo Ramírez García ◽  
Rogelio Sáenz ◽  
Jennifer Guillén
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Mexican Migrants ◽  
Show Evidence ◽  
Elderly Migrants

Migration is a phenomenon that impacts individuals throughout the life course. Particularly, Mexican elderly migrants show evidence of lifetime accumulations of the effects of migration on health conditions. Objectives: Examine how the relationship between historical time and individual time explains different factors impacting the health of Mexican adult and elderly migrants in Mexico and the United States. Method: Data from in-depth interviews with Mexican migrants living in selected locations in Mexico and the United States were used to illustrate the links between life course conditions, aging, migration, and health outcomes. Results and Discussion: According to this theoretical perspective and the data, historical time, age at migration, and the conditions under which the migration trajectory developed, show different impacts on the health and quality of life of the elderly, as revealed through analysis of labor experience, disease and accidents, medical service, health treatment, transnational networks, and family formation.

Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States.

1997 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
David J. Weber ◽  
Jorge Durand ◽  
Douglas S. Massey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mexican Migrants
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