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Transnational children--ranging from infants to teenagers--reside in, and migrate to and from, both Mexico and the United States. This paper considers this understudied population, the youngest members of Mexican migrant communities, to understand shifting configurations of kinship in a transnational space. By focusing on transnational families with ties to San Luis Potosi and several locales in the U.S. Southwest, I study the everyday experiences of Mexican migrants to demonstrate the presence and power of the U.S. state in family life. This paper examines a dilemma in transnational lives: a primary motivation for migration is to support and benefit children, and yet children are repeatedly in precarious or threatening situations precisely because of transnational movement, their own and that of their family members. The inclusion of children in the study of transnationality, I argue, nuances our understanding of the (re)production and (re)structuring of kinship. Moreover, a locus on children as embedded within families problematizes popular conceptions of migrants us solely outonomous agents, uncovering the multiple ways in which the actions of parents, children, end other family members are repeatedly shaped end constrained by state policies. [Keywords: transnationalism, children, Mexico, transnational children, migrants, migration], Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, at the U.S.-Mexico Border--Early one morning, three young Mexican children--three, five, and six years old--waited with their grandmother in a relative's home on the outskirts of the [...]

The article describes the theory of migration with special reference to the interaction between gender and political economy that includes class formation, settlement patterns, state formation, race and sexuality.

Article describes the complex interplay between males and females that takes place due to migration from Mexico the United States in which women sometimes exercised increased autonomy in some circumstances and sometimes face reassertion of male dominance.

In 1692, Spanish conquistadors entered Santa Fe in the reconquest of the current state of New Mexico. With them they brought an image whose potency had spread throughout colonial Mexico, [...]

The impact of neoliberalism and welfare reform on the delivery of Medicaid, specifically how the advent of Medicaid managed care (MMC) are wrought with contradictions, placing increased burdens on primary safety-net organizations and impacting the many communities they serve are examined. It is argued that federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) operate as a primary safety net among safety-net providers, supporting and subsidizing New Mexico's MMC program financially and administratively.