1. There and Back Again: Processes of Mexican Migration in the 21st Century: An Interview with Deborah A. Boehm.
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Boehm, Deborah A. and Lane, Sharrah
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TWENTY-first century , *ECONOMIC decision making , *TEENAGERS , *CRIMINAL justice system - Abstract
In the region of Mexico where I work, there's a long history of movement beginning with and even before the Bracero Program... the Bracero Program established male-led migration and now you have a male-led wave of deportations. For example, someone who immigrated as a one year old and came to the U.S., has grown up here and knows no other life… I'm thinking of one young woman whose father was deported, and she then stayed [in the U.S.] for a while after he was deported, but she, too, ended up "coming back" [to Mexico]. That's not to say he doesn't have ties to Mexico as well - he can get legal status [in Mexico] because Mexico recognizes dual nationality - but he was born in the U.S. and he can some day go back. And so, in her case, she was also in a sense "deported" even though she didn't go through a legal deportation or "removal" proceedings, which is a term the government uses. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2019