Transnational ambivalence
Incorporation after forced and compelled return to Mexico
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18959504 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexis M Silver (Purchase College – State University of New York, corresponding author), Melissa A Manzanares (0000-0003-0978-0368, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 2612-2632 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-10 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01419870.2023.2172354 |
| OpenAlex | W4320497139 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 40 |
Drawing on interview data with individuals who grew up in the US and returned to Mexico as young adults, this study examines how young returnees who were deported or compelled to leave the US navigate incorporation in Mexico. We find that labor market mobility does not automatically facilitate a sense of belonging. Participation in niche labor markets catering to native English speakers, however, facilitates social incorporation into communities of returnees. Our data suggest that social incorporation and evolving memories of the US powerfully influence returnees' sense of belonging in Mexico. Even years after return, young return migrants' incorporation journeys continue to be shaped by constant comparisons between the US and Mexico and a dual ambivalence toward both countries. Within transnational contexts of exclusion, young returnees' rely on each other to create communities of belonging
Ambivalence · Demographic economics · Economics · Political science · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Deported
The Changing Nature of Return Migration to Mexico, 1990–2010
Deported
Migration Between Mexico and the United States
Returned
Felons, not Families”
Offshore Migrant Workers
Back on your own
Push Back
Stereotype and stigma in the school (re)insertion of “children of deported parents” from the United States
Latino immigrant men and the deportation crisis
I Can’t Go to College Because I Don’t Have Papers”
Tagged as a criminal”
Ages, Life Stages, and Generational Cohorts
Conceptualizing Simultaneity
Going Back Home? Changing Demography and Geography of Mexican Return Migration
Returning to a New Mexican Labor Market? Regional Variation in the Economic Incorporation of Return Migrants from the U.S. to Mexico
Introduction
Displaced at “home
Return migrants from the United States to Mexico
Deported Americans
A longitudinal analysis of resource mobilisation among forced and voluntary return migrants in Mexico
El anti-malinchismo contra el mexicano-transnacional
Migrant "Illegality" and Deportability in Everyday Life
Return Migration
Emotional Challenges of Undocumented Young Adults
Segmented Re/integration
New Skills, New Jobs
Legal Violence
An imperfect realignment
The context of return migration
| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |