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The purpose of this article is to study the adaptations and representations from which four immigrant families, from different regions in India and settled in Tijuana (Mexico), recreate their religious practice. After belonging to a context where Hinduism is predominant, their religious practice becomes a minority when they migrate to Mexico. This situation identifies the negotiations between materiality and its relationship with spirituality on the part of believers themselves, since, without the intervention of a religious authority and in the absence of traditional temples in the place of arrival, families recreate the rituals at home. Following the methodological orientation of lived religion, we began by analyzing the materiality present in their household altars allowing us to study the processes of adaptation (changes and permanences) that take place when they move their daily lives from India to Mexico, specifically to the border between Tijuana and San Diego. We were also able to explore the emotions and meanings that individuals associate with the local elements, with which they continue their religious practice in a foreign country. As a result, the recreations through household altars reveal the elements that each individual values for his or her own religious practice. This article thus reflects on the practice of Hinduism in Tijuana, from a perspective centered on the believers themselves, in a context of religious autonomy as a consequence of migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work shows necropower in a situated context: north Veracruz, Mexico. Necropolitics are explained, as well as the subjective configuration that is imposed. Then, method developed is described, based on a qualitative and interdisciplinary approach. Later, "kitchens" are discussed as a form of deploy of necroem- powered entities and subjective configuration that prevails; the importance of family organizations is outlined to resist violence. Conclusions aim to the importance of comprehending necropower situated and that this space can make possible politic agency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this article is to analyze how women who search for their disappeared carry out practices to remember their relatives in the state of Guanajuato. The construction of the concept "windows of memory" is used to account for how women, through different objects, compulsively and repetitively remember their disappeared relatives, without carrying out a process of re-elaboration/resignification of the disappearance of their relative, remaining in a state of liminality. The research is based on the ethnography that I carried out throughout the generalized searches organized by the State Search Commission of the State of Guanajuato. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a specialized bibliography on the annihilation of bodies, geographies of terror, and places of memory in Mexico from 2006 to the present. Different databases and search engines were reviewed to gather information on the subject in the last five years, prioritizing references related to Latin America and Mexico. The bibliography includes articles and books that address violence, feminicides, forced disappearances, and violence against women in the Mexican context. The importance of phenomenology and cartography as tools to understand these issues is also mentioned. The document provides a list of bibliographic references related to violence and crime in Mexico. It includes academic articles and books that address topics such as feminicide, drug trafficking, political violence, and forced disappearance. These references are useful for those who wish to investigate and better understand these problems in the Mexican context. The article "The Logic of Bonfires" by N. Wachtel, published in volume 19, number 50 of the UACM magazine, analyzes the phenomenon of bonfires and their logic in Mexico. The author explores how bonfires are used as a form of protest and political expression in the country. The article provides historical and contemporary examples of bonfires and examines their cultural and social significance. The objective of the article is to understand the role of bonfires in Mexican society and their relationship with politics and national identity. [Extracted from the article]

The article proposes to discuss the scope of the moral discourse of the logic of cruelty in forced disappearances during the six-year administration of Felipe Calderón. It also seeks to identify practices that can reverse this grammar. To this end, two perspectives are used: a philosophical-anthropological one and a political-journalistic one, whose methodological structure posits four analytical axes. These include the ethical and moral distinction to determine what the logic of cruelty involves; a political-journalistic analysis to contextualize Calderón's "war on drug trafficking," a turning point in the increase in forced disappearances; the instrumentality of moral grammar and the logic of criminalization in the process of forced disappearance; and the ethical response of the "searchers" that points to the transgression of the logic of cruelty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reflects on the production and mobilization of certain types of knowledge as alternatives to hegemonic knowledge, and/or to formal and institutionalized procedures. We employ the concept of socially productive knowledge and use this lens to reflect on the searches carried out by groups of relatives of the disappeared. How should family members use new knowledge to carry out their searches? These ways of knowing are at times through formal channels, and at other times not. Family members and collectives generate their own geographies of pain and terror, they place themselves in the territories to look for human remains, and they learn to decipher signs of context. In the deployment of this knowledge, the management of space, territory and local context is important. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

More than 100,000 people are disappeared in Mexico, the urgency to find them has prompted groups to develop skills and knowledge to find their whereabouts and to conceive actions of resistance to oblivion and to appeal society to make its own their search and demand for justice. In this text I underline that the disappearance is also a discursive phenomenon where anonymity and criminalization of the victims of disappearance encourages the indifference and normalization of this crime; that the groups of victims generate counter-narratives that seek to subvert the hegemonic narrative about the disappeared and, based on three memory narratives, I propose that the counter-narratives in search of life seek to emphasize, not the disappearance, but the personality and daily moments of the absent people to generate resonance and build bridges of rapprochement towards those who are unaware of, or evade the depths of this crime in Mexico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines in-depth the root causes and consequences of Mexican forced displacement from a decolonial feminist perspective, emphasizing the intersections between the body and territory. The absence of quantitative and qualitative data on internal forced displacement in Mexico erases people and communities from the territory, making them invisible along the migratory routes and making them disappear on the map of contemporary geographies of terror. In this article, we focus on the embodied experiences of women, drawing upon extensive multi-sited binational research along the Mexico-US border. Their testimonies allow an understanding of forced displacement beyond passive and re-victimizing narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to analyze the main dangers that Central American and Mexican migrants confront when they resort to smugglers to get to the United States, and how the adversities they face are interpreted in light of two of the most outstanding discourses about smuggling. Based on surveys about migration done along Mexico's northern and southern borders, the authors examine this phenomenon as well as the figures for thefts, assaults, and abandonment that these people suffer at the hands of smugglers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The assimilation theories that have been the dominant approach in U.S. sociology for studying the experience of migrants and their children in the United States are based on a paradigm centering on ethnic relations and assimilation as a process of incorporating into the "majority society." In this article, the author discusses the central arguments of the contemporary versions of these theories in light of the main critiques of them, particularly those formulated from a paradigm centering on "race" relations, reproaching them for not taking seriously into account the determinant role of racialization and structural racism in the lives of migrants and their descendants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I introduce and analyze the Mexican Border Crossing Records (MBCRs), an unexplored data source that records aliens crossing the Mexico-US land border at diverse locations from 1903 to 1955. The MBCRs identify immigrants and report rich demographic, geographic and socioeconomic information at the individual level. These micro data have the potential to support cliometric research, which is scarce for the Mexico-US migration, especially for the beginnings of the flow (1884-1910). My analysis of the MBCRs suggests that previous literature may have inaccurately described the origin of the first Mexican immigrants. My findings diverge from historical scholarship because the micro data capture the geographic composition of the flow at the local level and across nine entrance ports, allowing me to characterize with precision the migration patterns during the 1900s. Overall, the micro data reported in the MBCRs offer the opportunity to address topics that concern the economics of migration in the past and present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since 2008, about half a million children have arrived in Mexico from the United States, most of whom are US‐born. However, due to limited statistical data, there have been few quantitative studies on their school integration. Using data from the 2017 School Integration Survey, conducted in 86 lower secondary schools in the Tijuana metropolitan area, we analyse the relationship between students' liking of school and their binational school trajectories in this border city with high return migration. The results, based on a multivariate statistical analysis, show that students who studied in that country exhibit a lower liking of school, which correlates with a higher number of years of schooling in the U.S. and less time spent in Mexico since last arrival. Various mediating mechanisms are identified, such as limited Spanish proficiency, teacher indifference and lack of cultural identification with Mexico. The implications for education policy are also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the discriminatory practices of the Mexican National Migration Institute (INM). Topics covered include the legal framework that grants INM agents with broad discretion, which in turn leads to discriminatory behavior, the strengths and shortcomings of the Mexican government's recent response to the INM's illegal activity, and the ways to use the principles of evolutionary learning to reform the INM.

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The article discusses the shift toward forced migration due to changing economic, political, climate conditions, and changes in the U.S. and Mexican migration regimes. Topics discussed include root causes including poverty, inequality, and the inability of governments in Mexico and Central America to guarantee safety and well-being of their populations and history of the rise in migration flows through Mexico.

The objective of this paper is to analyze the use of euphemisms in discourses of the National Institute of Migration (INM) regarding its policy on migration in irregular transit through Mexican territory. To achieve this, a qualitative analysis of euphemisms is performed as conceptual metaphors in press releases of the INM and its purposes. We conclude that the use of euphemisms in the discourses of the INM implies the concealment and the misrepresentation of reality that constitute its migratory control actions to the detriment of migrants in transit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The number of Americans and Canadians choosing to live outside of their home countries after retirement is increasing rapidly, with Mexico as the primary destination for emigration. The majority of these expatriates are white. This study explores how race affects the experiences of emigration and expatriation for these retirees. In-depth interviews with 30 white expatriate retirees living in Mazatlán, Mexico, reveal that white expatriates respond to a growing sense of racial victimization and nostalgia by framing their emigration as a chance to reclaim their superior and racialized social standing. Specifically, white expatriates use three strategies to explain how race affected their experiences in Mexico: escaping, wherein they come to Mexico to avoid the racial diversification of their home countries; evoking, in which they position Mexico as a place to recoup old-fashioned values; and reclaiming, wherein Mexico is perceived as a chance to regain their whiteness as standing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a dynamic structural model of migration that is designed to help explain the migration behaviour of undocumented Mexican immigrants in the US. Its key feature – which I call 'homesickness' – is a duration-dependent disutility from living abroad that keeps increasing while a migrant stays abroad and can be reset to zero only by returning to their home country. I estimate the model using data primarily from the Mexican Migration Project Survey and find that the model is capable of explaining, among other things, the fact that: (i) a non-negligible number of Mexican immigrants in the US return home after earning very little; (ii) these 'unsuccessful' immigrants are more likely to re-enter the US at a later date; and (iii) such 'unsuccessful' returns are more prevalent among immigrants who left their wives behind in Mexico. These facts are not easily reconciled with existing models of migration that do not feature homesickness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the progress of ongoing research into the migrant caravans in Mexico or the exoduses of displaced Central Americans taking place since 2011, but which intensified in 2018. Their presence challenges the grammar of narrating and practising specific forms of migration governmentality, while at the same time forming a kind of migrant self-defence or insurrection, whose main characteristics are walking en masse, without coyotes or legal permission, and along paths controlled by migration agents colluding with organised crime who continue to exercise an "indirect private government". In short, this paper is a reflection on the results obtained from the ongoing research, which is mainly genealogical and historical in nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After independence, Mexico became the destination for a current of migration from Barcelonnette, France. This migration increased between 1870 and 1930. The combination of several conditions, strategies, and characteristics of these businessmen's social networks allowed a significant proportion to become wealthy. This paper uses the example of the Barcelonnettes to show that the development of manufacturing industry in Mexico was not directly dependent on the need for foreign currency generated by exports in this period; however these manufacturers benefited from the growth of the domestic market, which was the result of increase of exports of primary goods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La apariencia facial de algunos trabajadores de este centro de barrio de Teopancazco es sin duda el reflejo de la confluencia migratoria de diferentes regiones de Mesoamérica, observada a partir de la representación facial de cinco cráneos enterrados en este sitio. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is part of a larger project that focuses in part on the migration dynamics in large Mexican metropolitan areas or globalising cities. In particular, it develops a comparative analysis of the urbanised region of Puebla-Tlaxcala, the metropolis of Monterrey and Tijuana. All three metropolitan areas are important industrial centres that attract rural–urban as well as interstate migrations. Moreover, these urban centres are situated at routes used by migrants from Central and South America to get to the US. Yet, despite the increasing impact of migration(s) on urban areas, very little is known about its characteristics and municipal authorities have not identified inward or transmigration as issues of political importance. For our analysis we intend to map the different migrations through addressing the following question: How are migrations transforming the urban areas of Monterrey, Tijuana and Puebla-Tlaxcala and how are they inserted in and contributing to urban assemblages in these metropolitan zones? For this particular article we have chosen three distinct migratory groups to contrast: Germans in Puebla-Tlaxcala, Haitians in Tijuana and Indigenous populations in Monterrey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This exploratory essay thinks through late-20th and early 21st century autobiographical novels and storytelling by indigenous migrants from Mexico and Central America. The think-piece examines the idea of "archiving selves" as well as the literary sensibilities of Manuel Olmos, Alma Murrieta, and Lamberto Roque Hernández. Focusing on how these non-professional writers document their border crossings and recount their uprooted lives in California, this essay casts new questions on indigenous Mesoamerican futurities that intersect—and depart from—Latino/a Studies and Native American Studies. It examines how a new social and cultural formation—indigenous-cum-migrant—is unfolding and revealing contemporary configurations on language and ethnic belonging. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this research was to characterize the assistance given to Mexican immigrant female victims of domestic violence by identifying the actions of CSOs in Los Angeles County, CA, in order to analyze whether they impact local development or not. The study employed a qualitative methodology based on grounded theory and used theoretical sampling, collecting data through semi-structured interviews. It was found that these CSOs have become agents of development, fulfilling a vital role and exerting public and political influence to empower battered women. They also achieved the creation of DART, a program to help battered women, and pushed for the implementation of Law SB 674, which requires that police issue a certification in cases of domestic violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the nostalgic experiences of Mexican immigrants in the state of New York. From a new approach to mobilities paradigm, we propose a focus on the emotional aspects of migration to reveal the internal conflicts that emerge when migrants seek to adapt to the lifestyle of their destination country, while trying not to lose their cultural roots, and how this inner tension influences the interactions in their everyday doings and emotions. Based on the narratives exposed in 35 interviews with Mexican immigrants living at the destination country, this qualitative study provides elements for the understanding of nostalgic experiences derived from the painful process of leaving their home country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes imaginaries and rumors about the sexual life of migrants that circulate in transnational communities, through a qualitative approach on Mexican men in Chicago (United States) and Peruvian women in Buenos Aires (Argentina). The findings suggest that in contemporary Latin American mobilities, transnational imaginaries and rumors are the product of tensions between social transformation and control. They express concerns about the possibility of transgressing the limits imposed by the heteropatriarchal organization of sexuality and gender, and by racial constructs and class structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes and analyzes the stages of the process of what is known in Spanish as Transmigración Placentera. The description of the phenomenon, we do it since the "Push-Pull" theoretical approach, which posits that human mobility responds to rational valuations by comparing elements in the place of origin and destination. In particular, we focus on describing and comparing the mobility of UK citizens who migrate to El Campello, Spain, and US citizens moving to Mazatlan, Mexico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reconstructs the case of Mrs. Concepción, a resident of a rural town in the state of Querétaro, who was arrested in 2005 for providing food and shelter to Central American immigrants in transit. Two years later, she was released. Her case summarizes in a series of modifications in solidarity practices towards immigrants and allows to explore some displacements in the social discourses on immigration and solidarity that have occurred in Mexico during the last fifteen years. This story shows the attacks of the government that oppress the Central American immigrants and break the social grammars that sustain solidarity practices. The solidarity practiced by this rural woman was based on a series of empathies with the immigrants as poor and deprived individuals, but also in a moral of the gift that emphasized the value of giving selflessly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the present study was to analyze the central ideas developed by Manuel Gamio about return migrants in a project conducted by the Mexican scholar in 1925 and in his classic work, published in 1930. These views are the first instances of academic reflection concerning return migrants in Mexico, the influence of American society on this social group, and the social and economic consequences of their return to Mexico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article derives from a series of previous studies since 2008 about the movement of former workers in different parts of Mexico. This movement has several sociological edges: social rights, labor migration, return migrations, public migration policies, emotional experiences of migration, old age, rural areas, etc. The role of ignorance in the relationship between braceros and authorities is addressed, in the light of this complexity. Ignorance, known as agnotology from the pioneering works of the historian Robert Proctor, has become an object of study to understand another aspect of contemporary governance. It consists in the deliberate production of ignorance that is infused and spread to a given audience, often taking advantage of its vulnerability. It works by omission (absence of information) or confusion (multiple information). The above is my object of study and then I present its first research results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study is to analyze how, in news articles published in online versions of print newspapers from both the United States and Mexico, media represent Mexican immigrants based on the wording they use in articles about immigration issues. The study was done by analyzing, counting and comparing the words used by newspapers. Using critical discourse analysis as methodology, this study aims to contribute to a growing body of literature on the language used by the media and its influence on media consumers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this article is to analyze how the increasing securitization and militarization of Mexican migration policies against irregular migration has led to recent refronterizations marked by the widening and multiplication of borders throughout the national territory, and attempts -disjointed- of governmentalization of migrations in transit. To achieve this analysis we focus on regions traditionally not considered border areas, in that sense we seek an interpretation of space policies (physical and symbolic boundaries) in the Metropolitan Zone of Guadalajara, Mexico. We discuss the spatial nature of power, demonstrating the mechanisms that transform certain subjects into authorized and unauthorized bodies to transit, remain or be recognized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses the proposals that emerged in Mexico as a response to the deportation of thousands of Mexicans from and by the United States during the first years of the Great Depression. With this analysis I discuss ways in which diverse sectors of Mexican society responded to the situation and the main initiatives that were put forward: the expulsion of United States citizens, a ban on them working in Mexico and a commercial boycott against United States products. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Regarding migration changes between Mexico and the USA, this study focuses on the increase and diversification of migration between Chiapas and the USA during the period 2000-2007. This paper argues that not only economic conditions are the explanation to these migrations but also, in certain regions, political processes and impacts of natural disasters were important drivers for migration -a combination of causes in the context of migration-. Based on different sources (indicators of migration intensity, index on the remittance reception, migratory censuses, demographic surveys, quantitative and qualitative migratory studies), the increase in migration is shown at a state and regional level. Furthermore, the increase of migration in certain regions is assessed in relation with its causes (social, environmental, political and economical) showing that, migrations are multicausal processes spatially differentiated on the basis of the migrants' place of origin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our article focuses on the emergence of a racialized border rhetoric that functions to cast Mexican (im)migrants, refugees, US DREAMers, and undocumented persons in the US—specifically those coming from south of the US border—as social burdens who threaten the sovereignty of the nation-state. We describe the new essentialism in Donald J. Trump’s tweets and speeches that is a hybrid of overt and covert racism working to cast brown bodies as dangerous, deviant, pollutants as a means of controlling their movements and re-centering Whiteness. At the same time, we identify a dangerous liminality that refugees, (im)migrants, and potentially DREAMers find themselves navigating as a result. Attention is also given to counter-narratives that have been advanced to resist this essentializing rhetoric. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Regularization programmes for undocumented migrants are generally viewed as a form of transition from “illegality” to a secure legal status. Yet, as we argue in this article, in many countries, such as Mexico, this transition is often incomplete and reversible. This article discusses regularization programmes for undocumented migrants in Mexico before and after the introduction of the 2011 Migration Law and illustrates that the status migrants obtain is precarious, that is insecure and conditional upon their ability to meet requirements for status renewal. Focusing on Central Americans in Mexico, we suggest that many migrants have been unable to obtain or renew their status after new procedures were put in place in 2011. Coining the legality granted through Mexico’s regularization process “precarious legality”, we attribute it to the contradiction between Mexico’s stated respect for migrants’ human rights and the de facto commitment to immigration control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The tribute system in colonial Spanish America ordered social difference. This article shows how the fiscal categorization of people determined their place in colonial society and how these people negotiated their categorization in petitions to the colonial authorities. The article focuses on the case of indigenous migrants, which is especially interesting because their translocal belonging opened up spaces for negotiation. The indigenous migrants contested the intended precise social and spatial ordering of the colonial system. The entanglement of legal categories and human movement will be analyzed in two cases that might be expected to be very similar but were surprisingly different: colonial Mexico (New Spain) and Peru, where migrants are more visible in the historical record. The article will also show that the borders of translocal life changed during the colonial period. In doing so, it helps clarify the varying transitions and overlaps between being mobile and sedentary in two colonial societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For the Masewal people of Santa María Tepetzintla, in the Sierra Norte de Puebla (Mexico), the world is broken. According to their worldview, the cosmos was originally fragmented by an envious god who broke the pillars connecting the sky and the earth in two, the remains of the said act are the mountains where they now live. However, today the world is facing new forms of destruction - erosion, drought and economic poverty - diagnosed by the Masewal indigenous people as a bi-product of human activity. The Masewal peasants consider that they have abandoned the spirits of the earth to pursue economic ambitions. As a result of this new worldview, even the old gods can become victims. The response of the Masewal people has been to rekindle their relationship with the spirits in the hope of reversing these consequences and thus return to a renewed mythology of interdependence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Much of the academic literature conceives of deportation as a process of waste removal, characterizing deportees as the discards of empire. However, the existence of a significant class of people deported from the United States working as call center agents in countries like Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador suggests instead the metaphor of recycling, evidence of the cynical and cruel efficiencies of global neoliberal capitalism. This article is based on interviews conducted with thirteen individuals who migrated to the United States as minors, were deported to El Salvador following lengthy residencies in the United States, and found work in the growing Salvadoran call center industry, where they provide virtual services in English for North American customers. I argue that this recycling of deportee labor is made possible through the extension of the condition of deportability, which continues to produce a population of workers vulnerable to exploitation by North American capital in El Salvador long after deportation, and that this recycling serves as a disciplinary process that reproduces a neoliberal discourse of personal responsibility, in which call center work emerges as the instrument to reform transgressive deportees and convert them into productive neoliberal subjects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Once a predominantly White and Black community, since 1990 Marshall has experienced a 900% increase in residents of Mexican origin. This rapid demographic shift is particularly evident in changes to how commercial and residential spaces are owned and utilized. This article examines how residents of Marshall use spatiotemporal scales to imagine the economic and social trajectories of their town, and assign roles to different groups of people within these trajectories. We analyze how Marshall residents spacialize their accounts of community change by attending to two narratives that circulate simultaneously—the first is about community renewal following the arrival of Mexican residents; the second is about Black flight in response to perceived community disintegration. By tracing the production and circulation of these narratives, we move beyond an analysis of “othering” that presupposes a native “us” and immigrant “them.” Instead, we explore how Marshall's diverse history of immigration, segregation, industrial development and decline produces heterogeneous, complex and shifting “others.” [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using matched data from the Current Population Survey from 2005 to 2011 (n = 5,507), we use multinomial and binary logistic regression models to examine employment transitions related to the Great Recession for five groups of men with less than a high school degree: foreign-born Mexicans, other foreign-born, and US-born whites, blacks, and Latinos. We find that, during the recession, Mexican immigrants were the most likely to remain continuously employed. However, immigrant workers also experienced high levels of involuntary part-time employment during the recession, suggesting that their relative success in remaining employed was not without its costs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Return migrants engage in high rates of self-employment, which scholars commonly attribute to the accumulation of financial and human capital while working abroad. Central to this scholarship is the assumption that self-employment is positive and leads to upward economic mobility among return migrants. This scholarship is limited, however, because it relies on large surveys and cross-sectional census data that treat self-employment as a single unidimensional status measured at one point in time. To improve conceptualization and measurement of self-employment, we engage three bodies of research that have thus far had little cross-fertilization: the literature on work and self-employment in Latin America, the scholarship on return migration and self-employment, and developments in economic theories of international migration. Drawing on results from the first longitudinal analysis of the labor market trajectories of Mexican return migrants in a large urban area in central Mexico, we identify three types of self-employment--survivalist, temporary, and prosperous. To explain these divergent self-employment pathways, we draw on biographical narratives and identify two sets of mechanisms--human capital formation and life-course stage. Overall, our investigation of self-employment types suggests a complex relationship between international migration experiences and the labor market mobility of return migrants that cannot be understood without taking into consideration migrants' social and economic circumstances before, during, and after migration. Consequently, our study yields insights into economic theories of international migration and provides direction for future research on return migration and labor market reintegration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mexico is one of the largest recipients of international remittances in the world. Although there is increasing evidence of return migration in the country, little is known about the ways in which the impact of remittances on voter turnout differs according to temporary (circular) and permanent forms of migration. This paper aims to contribute to the literature by examining the interactive effect between remittances and return migration. Using a series of quantitative analyses based on aggregate data for all Mexican municipalities that held municipal elections between 2010 and 2012 and participated in the 2012 presidential election, the analysis confirms that voter turnout rates are negatively related to the percentage of households that receive remittances in a municipality. However, it reveals that the negative effect of remittances on voter turnout decreases as the percentage of households with return migrants in a municipality increases. This result is valid across elections at the presidential and municipal levels. The evidence thus confirms that the relationship between remittances and voter turnout varies according to whether emigration is temporary or permanent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the 90s the revitalized economy of the called Nuevo New South has recruited Latin immigrants at unused pace and scale; simultaneously, around neoliberal restructuration processes, emerging accelerated f lows of people with an origin in Central and Southern Mexico were the response to the increased demand for cheap labor in Southeastern United States. Supported on information collected at the municipality of Pahuatlán, Puebla, as well as at the counties of Durham and Orange, North Carolina, is proposed in this article to analyze the interlocking of two female migration patterns and the women's unstable precarious enrollment into the restaurant and cleaning industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we examine the role of the festivals known as Guelaguetzas that are organized among communities of Oaxacan (Oaxaca, Mexico) immigrants settled in California (United States), as a key factor for their internal consolidation process. We argue that all cultural activities displayed in such festivals allow a greater appreciation of the reconfiguration processes linking the places of origin and destination. Furthermore, the organization of these festivals entails the creation of cultural spaces that allow a resignification of their contents by emphasizing three core elements of the social identity for these Oaxacan immigrants: the migrant condition, indigeneity and the pan-Oaxacan dimension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At southhuasteca region in Mexico, the otomi have excelled for its cultural vitality, as well as some social and political activism that inf luences their interethnic relations, economic activities and daily life. One example is the effective transnational migrant circuit ranging from the South Huastecan to the East Coast of the United States, which have consolidated over three migratory waves with different stakeholders. In that vein, it is my interest to make a general outline on international migration dynamics of this group: who are the social actors involved, which are the characteristics of their mobility, filed ethnic networks and use of remittances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an analysis of 179 interviews with children who lived in the United States and then returned to Mexico following various itineraries. This article seeks to discover the knowledge children accumulate about international migration-i.e., what do they know about migration? All the interviewed children received part of their education in the United States; that is why this article classifies them as members of the 0.5 generation. This definition allows the formulation of the question in a clearer manner: What knowledge of everyday life have children developed about international migration movements? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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