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Migration has been approached from a predominantly spatial focus that has largely neglected its temporal dimension, although the reference to the future has been recognized as an expressive factor of the phenomenon itself. Approaches in anthropology that focus on the temporality of migration have recently warned that, in contemporary global circumstances, migration projects, particularly those of irregular migrants, seem to be marked by waiting and by the temporary suspension of their resolution. Such studies tend to emphasize the migrants' experience of time, subjected to a chronopolitics conditioned by the bureaucratic management of migration. In this paper, based on an ethnographic approach developed between 2012 and 2019 in Otomí-Hñahñu indigenous communities in the Mezquital Valley, in central Mexico, I follow anthropological concerns about the temporality of migration and waiting. However, I propose an alternative path to the one that has been developed in recent literature on the subject. At the same time, I explore the multiple ways in which the uncertain time of migration is managed among the communities of origin. I propose that these migrants co-participate in the migration project and its temporalities, by engaging in concrete practices to manage absence and waiting times. The Mezquital Valley communities, which have experienced intense migration to the United States since the end of the last century, are currently communities in waiting. A wait that, although marked by the chronopolitics of migration, does not cease to identify its promise for the future and temporarily steer migratory projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows the progress in terms of human development of a group of migrants who maintain their immigration status as not legally permitted (NPL) in the United States, measured through the human development indices (HDI) prepared at the household level with variations in the maximums in the dimensions of education and health in that country and in Mexico, as well as through qualitative information related mainly to the knowledge dimension of the same group, which allows us to observe the way in which the group of migrants constructs socially based on their assessments to achieve progress in promoting skills and opportunities for themselves and other members of the household. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper delves into an analysis of illegality in migration, from a migrant perspective. To do this, established and assimilated historical practices in selected groups of Mexican migrants were analyzed according to immigration status and settlement area. The argument presented here is that illegality has a functional character for the reproduction of the migrant trajectory. This is demonstrated using a comparative analysis of the way migrants' decisions allow them to integrate their trajectories into two contexts which show unequal development. Such integration determines its functionality independently of the existence of restrictive migration policies in nation-state contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to analyze metaphors and their persuasive function in journalistic discourses in favor of migrants in irregular transit through Mexico. To do this, conceptual metaphors used in texts on Central American transit migration in the Mexican national press of 2014 will be analyzed. Likewise, the metaphor is discussed as a mechanism of persuasion through the appeal to emotions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents some statistical data on the Hispanic population in the United States and its growth, caused by a sustained immigrant influx. The paper develops the following points: 1) the importance and relevance of the Hispanic population in the United States; 2) the role of Mexican and Central American migration as the main sources of manual labor for the American economy; 3) the importance of migrants in the regional and national development in the countries of origin; 4) the situation and perspectives of the second generation; 5) the long-term integration of the Latin American immigrant population in the United States. The supporting arguments of recent essays criticizing the presence of the Hispanic population in the United States are examined as being a threat to English dominance and a factor for cultural disintegration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to provide quantitative elements useful for the design of an update on the migration situation in the State of Mexico diagnosis, this paper analyzes the Survey on Migration to the United States of Mexico State (EMMEU) that was designed and implemented with to quantify and characterize migrants moving to the United States and within the country to identify the impact of this movement in their homes of origin. Concepts and ordinarily resident household who are regularly employed in population censuses and demographic surveys conducted by the National Institute of Geography of Mexico are used. Analytical dimension, design and survey sample is explained and concludes with the scope and limitations of EMMEU 2009. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper is part of the dissertation "Mexican Immigrants in Meatpacking Areas of Kansas: Transition and Acquisition of Cultural Capital", that applies the theoretical framework of Pierre Bourdieu( 1977;1986) to observe the process of adaptation of Mexican immigrants, as a process of acquisition of cultural capital, in which they have to modify or get rid of certain cultural practices from their original cultural background (habitus), and adopt and adapt elements from the receiving Anglo culture, thus defining their position within the new social space. The application of such a theoretical framework represented a challenge, since there were no previous applications of the bourdiean model in the study of migrant communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]