Cristina Masferrer
Biographic Data
| ID | 319110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cristina Masferrer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Masferrer |
| SIGNATURE | MASFERRER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | El Colegio de México |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0902-7723 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Understanding Regularization, Temporary, and Permanent Residence in Mexico Using Administrative Data
Bureaucratic processes and administrative procedures play a central role in producing differentiated statuses of legality and regularity. Over the past decade, Mexico has experienced a notable increase in the number of arrivals from a diverse range of countries of origin, with varied motivations and intentions to stay, transit, or seek asylum. As a result of this changing migration scenario, some foreign-born individuals lack valid migration docu…
Implications of Complex Migrant Trajectories, Itineraries, and Legal Pathways in the Americas: Lessons from Fieldwork in Mexico
Migrant flows through and to Mexico have become increasingly complex. Based on fieldwork conducted in 2025 in Ciudad Juárez and Mexico City, we find that many of the migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean have had very long and complex itineraries, trajectories, and legal statuses within the Americas. They were negotiating new possibilities in the face of constant change in migration policies in other Latin American countries, as well as r…
Múltiples Méxicos, deudas demográficas y nuevas problemáticas: XV Reunión Nacional de la Somede
Este texto recupera los comentarios presentados en junio de 2025 en la ceremonia de clausura de la XV Reunión Nacional de la Sociedad Mexicana de Demografía (Somede), realizada en Aguascalientes, México. Ante la invitación de realizar un resumen, la autora plasma sus ideas en forma de artículo de investigación, y ordena las contribuciones teóricas de los demógrafos proponiendo tres ejes o preguntas clave; asimismo, enuncia los retos y los trabajo…
De Facto Deportation from the United States to Mexico, 2015–2020
De facto deportation is emigration to accompany a deported person, typically a nuclear family member. We study the recent de facto deportation of children, spouses, and parents of people deported from the United States to Mexico. We identify, quantify, and describe the characteristics of de facto deported people and compare them to those who migrated for other reasons using 2020 Mexican Census data. We also analyze data from interviews with retur…
Separación y planes de reunificación familiar después de la deportación a México desde Estados Unidos
El objetivo del artículo es analizar cómo las familias planean reorganizarse tras la separación forzada de padres e hijos utilizando datos de encuestas que cuantifican los planes de reunificación de padres deportados de Estados Unidos a México entre 2015 y 2019. Se utilizan registros administrativos estadounidenses y datos de la Encuesta sobre Migración en la Frontera Norte de México para estimar el número de adultos mexicanos deportados que fuer…
Which definition of migration better fits Facebook ‘expats’? A response using Mexican census data
BACKGROUND: Data from social media have emerged as an auxiliary source for real-time information on migrant populations. Facebook users’ tagged ‘expat’ data – an ‘expat’ being someone who lived in country x but now lives in country y – has been used to estimate immigrants and its quality assessment has relied on household surveys and UNDESA migration estimates. OBJECTIVE: Using the census as the gold standard and six definitions of migration, we …
Visitor Visa Policy Changes and Mexico-Canada Migration
Although recent scholarship shows that restrictive visa policies curtail migration, research does not disaggregate policy effects within migration flows. We analyze Mexico-Canada migration when a travel visa was imposed in 2009 and removed in 2016. The imposition coincided with a dramatic decrease in travel and refugee claims. However, the number of Mexican immigrants grew, contrasting expectations of migration policy effectiveness research. We s…
Concurrent Displacements: Return, Waiting for Asylum, and Internal Displacement in Northern Mexico
This paper explores the ways in which contemporary mobility dynamics in Mexico have changed over the last decade, leading to protracted displacement. It focuses on three populations: (1) the internally displaced due to violence; (2) Mexican nationals returning from the United States, both voluntarily and due to deportation; and (3) populations seeking asylum in Mexico and the United States. These three populations are not usually analyzed togethe…
Introduction: Towards a New Migration and Asylum Research Agenda for the Americas
This introduction frames the Special Issue by describing the rapid changes around migration and migration governance in the Americas over the last years – including the Venezuelan exodus, COVID pandemic, impacts of U.S. policies, and bilateral labor migration. By "the Americas" we mean the entirety of the continent, from Canada to the Patagonia – a vast region connected by various migration systems and overlapping and segregated governance regime…
Considerations for a New Research Agenda on Migration and Refugee Studies: Lessons from Studying Migration and Foreign Policies in Mexico
Since 2000, Mexico has faced challenges in developing migration policies as it transformed from an emigration country into a country of return, transit, immigration, and forced internal displacement. With limited institutional capacities to address this complexity, Mexican policymakers transferred key policymaking powers to the foreign policy apparatus to bend to the Trump administration’s coercive demands that Mexico contain and deter migration.…
Economic Integration of Afro–Latin American Immigrants in Mexico
U.S. Citizen Children De Facto Deported to Mexico
Between 2000 and 2015, the U.S. deported unprecedented numbers of Mexican immigrants. During the same period, the population of U.S.‐born children living in Mexico doubled in size. This study estimates the number of U.S.‐born children who emigrated to Mexico from the United States in order to accompany a deported parent: de facto deported children. The data come from the Mexican National Survey of Demographic Dynamics (ENADID), a national probabi…
Returning to a New Mexican Labor Market? Regional Variation in the Economic Incorporation of Return Migrants from the U.S. to Mexico
Immigrants in Their Parental Homeland: Half a Million U.S.-born Minors Settle Throughout Mexico
In the past 10 years, a historical change occurred in migration flows within North America: specifically, Mexico–U.S. migration reached zero net migration. Alongside Mexican adults returning to their homeland was an unprecedented number of U.S.-born minors. Little is known about this massive migration of U.S. citizen children. We analyze Mexican census data from 2000 to 2015 to estimate the size and characteristics of the population of U.S.-born …
El racismo y la representación social de lo negro entre niños de pueblos afromexicanos
Este artículo analiza la representación social que construyen niños de pueblos afromexicanos sobre lo negro o las personas 'negras' y examina de qué manera se asocia al racismo. Los resultados se basan en el trabajo de campo realizado en la región con la mayor concentración de localidades afrodescendientes en México, la Costa Chica de Guerrero y Oaxaca, en la cual se desarrollaron diversas estrategias etnográficas con niños de cuatro a catorce añ…
Going Back Home? Changing Demography and Geography of Mexican Return Migration
Going Back Home? Changing Demography and Geography of Mexican Return Migration
Immigrants in Their Parental Homeland: Half a Million U.S.-born Minors Settle Throughout Mexico
In the past 10 years, a historical change occurred in migration flows within North America: specifically, Mexico–U.S. migration reached zero net migration. Alongside Mexican adults returning to their homeland was an unprecedented number of U.S.-born minors. Little is known about this massive migration of U.S. citizen children. We analyze Mexican census data from 2000 to 2015 to estimate the size and characteristics of the population of U.S.-born …
Returning to a New Mexican Labor Market? Regional Variation in the Economic Incorporation of Return Migrants from the U.S. to Mexico
Concurrent Displacements: Return, Waiting for Asylum, and Internal Displacement in Northern Mexico
This paper explores the ways in which contemporary mobility dynamics in Mexico have changed over the last decade, leading to protracted displacement. It focuses on three populations: (1) the internally displaced due to violence; (2) Mexican nationals returning from the United States, both voluntarily and due to deportation; and (3) populations seeking asylum in Mexico and the United States. These three populations are not usually analyzed togethe…
U.S. Citizen Children De Facto Deported to Mexico
Between 2000 and 2015, the U.S. deported unprecedented numbers of Mexican immigrants. During the same period, the population of U.S.‐born children living in Mexico doubled in size. This study estimates the number of U.S.‐born children who emigrated to Mexico from the United States in order to accompany a deported parent: de facto deported children. The data come from the Mexican National Survey of Demographic Dynamics (ENADID), a national probabi…
Visitor Visa Policy Changes and Mexico-Canada Migration
Although recent scholarship shows that restrictive visa policies curtail migration, research does not disaggregate policy effects within migration flows. We analyze Mexico-Canada migration when a travel visa was imposed in 2009 and removed in 2016. The imposition coincided with a dramatic decrease in travel and refugee claims. However, the number of Mexican immigrants grew, contrasting expectations of migration policy effectiveness research. We s…
Economic Integration of Afro–Latin American Immigrants in Mexico
El racismo y la representación social de lo negro entre niños de pueblos afromexicanos
Este artículo analiza la representación social que construyen niños de pueblos afromexicanos sobre lo negro o las personas 'negras' y examina de qué manera se asocia al racismo. Los resultados se basan en el trabajo de campo realizado en la región con la mayor concentración de localidades afrodescendientes en México, la Costa Chica de Guerrero y Oaxaca, en la cual se desarrollaron diversas estrategias etnográficas con niños de cuatro a catorce añ…
Which definition of migration better fits Facebook ‘expats’? A response using Mexican census data
BACKGROUND: Data from social media have emerged as an auxiliary source for real-time information on migrant populations. Facebook users’ tagged ‘expat’ data – an ‘expat’ being someone who lived in country x but now lives in country y – has been used to estimate immigrants and its quality assessment has relied on household surveys and UNDESA migration estimates. OBJECTIVE: Using the census as the gold standard and six definitions of migration, we …
Considerations for a New Research Agenda on Migration and Refugee Studies: Lessons from Studying Migration and Foreign Policies in Mexico
Since 2000, Mexico has faced challenges in developing migration policies as it transformed from an emigration country into a country of return, transit, immigration, and forced internal displacement. With limited institutional capacities to address this complexity, Mexican policymakers transferred key policymaking powers to the foreign policy apparatus to bend to the Trump administration’s coercive demands that Mexico contain and deter migration.…
Going Back Home? Changing Demography and Geography of Mexican Return Migration
El racismo y la representación social de lo negro entre niños de pueblos afromexicanos
Este artículo analiza la representación social que construyen niños de pueblos afromexicanos sobre lo negro o las personas 'negras' y examina de qué manera se asocia al racismo. Los resultados se basan en el trabajo de campo realizado en la región con la mayor concentración de localidades afrodescendientes en México, la Costa Chica de Guerrero y Oaxaca, en la cual se desarrollaron diversas estrategias etnográficas con niños de cuatro a catorce añ…
Immigrants in Their Parental Homeland: Half a Million U.S.-born Minors Settle Throughout Mexico
In the past 10 years, a historical change occurred in migration flows within North America: specifically, Mexico–U.S. migration reached zero net migration. Alongside Mexican adults returning to their homeland was an unprecedented number of U.S.-born minors. Little is known about this massive migration of U.S. citizen children. We analyze Mexican census data from 2000 to 2015 to estimate the size and characteristics of the population of U.S.-born …
Returning to a New Mexican Labor Market? Regional Variation in the Economic Incorporation of Return Migrants from the U.S. to Mexico
Economic Integration of Afro–Latin American Immigrants in Mexico
U.S. Citizen Children De Facto Deported to Mexico
Between 2000 and 2015, the U.S. deported unprecedented numbers of Mexican immigrants. During the same period, the population of U.S.‐born children living in Mexico doubled in size. This study estimates the number of U.S.‐born children who emigrated to Mexico from the United States in order to accompany a deported parent: de facto deported children. The data come from the Mexican National Survey of Demographic Dynamics (ENADID), a national probabi…
Concurrent Displacements: Return, Waiting for Asylum, and Internal Displacement in Northern Mexico
This paper explores the ways in which contemporary mobility dynamics in Mexico have changed over the last decade, leading to protracted displacement. It focuses on three populations: (1) the internally displaced due to violence; (2) Mexican nationals returning from the United States, both voluntarily and due to deportation; and (3) populations seeking asylum in Mexico and the United States. These three populations are not usually analyzed togethe…
Introduction: Towards a New Migration and Asylum Research Agenda for the Americas
This introduction frames the Special Issue by describing the rapid changes around migration and migration governance in the Americas over the last years – including the Venezuelan exodus, COVID pandemic, impacts of U.S. policies, and bilateral labor migration. By "the Americas" we mean the entirety of the continent, from Canada to the Patagonia – a vast region connected by various migration systems and overlapping and segregated governance regime…
Considerations for a New Research Agenda on Migration and Refugee Studies: Lessons from Studying Migration and Foreign Policies in Mexico
Since 2000, Mexico has faced challenges in developing migration policies as it transformed from an emigration country into a country of return, transit, immigration, and forced internal displacement. With limited institutional capacities to address this complexity, Mexican policymakers transferred key policymaking powers to the foreign policy apparatus to bend to the Trump administration’s coercive demands that Mexico contain and deter migration.…
Which definition of migration better fits Facebook ‘expats’? A response using Mexican census data
BACKGROUND: Data from social media have emerged as an auxiliary source for real-time information on migrant populations. Facebook users’ tagged ‘expat’ data – an ‘expat’ being someone who lived in country x but now lives in country y – has been used to estimate immigrants and its quality assessment has relied on household surveys and UNDESA migration estimates. OBJECTIVE: Using the census as the gold standard and six definitions of migration, we …
Visitor Visa Policy Changes and Mexico-Canada Migration
Although recent scholarship shows that restrictive visa policies curtail migration, research does not disaggregate policy effects within migration flows. We analyze Mexico-Canada migration when a travel visa was imposed in 2009 and removed in 2016. The imposition coincided with a dramatic decrease in travel and refugee claims. However, the number of Mexican immigrants grew, contrasting expectations of migration policy effectiveness research. We s…
De Facto Deportation from the United States to Mexico, 2015–2020
De facto deportation is emigration to accompany a deported person, typically a nuclear family member. We study the recent de facto deportation of children, spouses, and parents of people deported from the United States to Mexico. We identify, quantify, and describe the characteristics of de facto deported people and compare them to those who migrated for other reasons using 2020 Mexican Census data. We also analyze data from interviews with retur…
Separación y planes de reunificación familiar después de la deportación a México desde Estados Unidos
El objetivo del artículo es analizar cómo las familias planean reorganizarse tras la separación forzada de padres e hijos utilizando datos de encuestas que cuantifican los planes de reunificación de padres deportados de Estados Unidos a México entre 2015 y 2019. Se utilizan registros administrativos estadounidenses y datos de la Encuesta sobre Migración en la Frontera Norte de México para estimar el número de adultos mexicanos deportados que fuer…
Understanding Regularization, Temporary, and Permanent Residence in Mexico Using Administrative Data
Bureaucratic processes and administrative procedures play a central role in producing differentiated statuses of legality and regularity. Over the past decade, Mexico has experienced a notable increase in the number of arrivals from a diverse range of countries of origin, with varied motivations and intentions to stay, transit, or seek asylum. As a result of this changing migration scenario, some foreign-born individuals lack valid migration docu…
Implications of Complex Migrant Trajectories, Itineraries, and Legal Pathways in the Americas: Lessons from Fieldwork in Mexico
Migrant flows through and to Mexico have become increasingly complex. Based on fieldwork conducted in 2025 in Ciudad Juárez and Mexico City, we find that many of the migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean have had very long and complex itineraries, trajectories, and legal statuses within the Americas. They were negotiating new possibilities in the face of constant change in migration policies in other Latin American countries, as well as r…
Múltiples Méxicos, deudas demográficas y nuevas problemáticas: XV Reunión Nacional de la Somede
Este texto recupera los comentarios presentados en junio de 2025 en la ceremonia de clausura de la XV Reunión Nacional de la Sociedad Mexicana de Demografía (Somede), realizada en Aguascalientes, México. Ante la invitación de realizar un resumen, la autora plasma sus ideas en forma de artículo de investigación, y ordena las contribuciones teóricas de los demógrafos proponiendo tres ejes o preguntas clave; asimismo, enuncia los retos y los trabajo…
Migration and Labor Dynamics (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Geography (9 works) · Immigration (9 works) · Population (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (6 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works)