“The Puzzle: Have Undocumented Mexican Migrants Vanished?”

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge I. Domínguez
Keyword(s):  
Mexican Migrants

How Long do Mexican Migrants Work in the U.S.?

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dwight Steward ◽  
Amy Raub ◽  
Jeannie Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Mexican Migrants ◽  
The U.S

Specters of Belonging

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrián Félix
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Mexican Migrants ◽  
Mexican State ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Mexican Migrant ◽  
Transnational Citizenship

In the context of research on the “thickening” of borders, Specters of Belonging raises the related question: How does transnational citizenship thicken across the political life cycle of Mexican migrants? In addressing this question, this book resembles what any good migration corrido (ballad) does—narrate the thickening of transnational citizenship from beginning, middle, to end. Specifically, Specters of Belonging traces Mexican migrant transnationalism across the migrant political life cycle, beginning with the “political baptism” (i.e., naturalization in the United States) and ending with repatriation to México after death. In doing so, the book illustrates how Mexican migrants enunciate, enact, and embody transnational citizenship in constant dialectical contestation with the state and institutions of citizenship on both sides of the U.S.-México border. Drawing on political ethnographies of citizenship classrooms, the first chapter examines how Mexican migrants enunciate transnational citizenship as they navigate the naturalization process in the United States and grapple with the contradictions of U.S. citizenship and its script of singular political loyalty. The middle chapter deploys transnational ethnography to analyze how Mexican migrants enact transnational citizenship within the clientelistic orbit of the Mexican state, focusing on a group of returned migrant politicians and transnational activists. Last, the final chapter turns to how Mexican migrants embody transnational citizenship by tracing the cross-border practice of repatriating the bodies of deceased Mexican migrants from the United States to their communities of origin in rural México.

Gender, family separation, and negative emotional well‐being among recent Mexican migrants

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Arenas ◽  
Jenjira Yahirun ◽  
Graciela Teruel ◽  
Luis Rubalcava ◽  
Pablo Gaitán‐Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Family Separation ◽  
Mexican Migrants

scholarly journals Access to Health Care among Mexican Migrants and Immigrants: A Comparison across Migration Phases

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 1314-1326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana P. Martinez-Donate ◽  
Ifna Ejebe ◽  
Xiao Zhang ◽  
Sylvia Guendelman ◽  
Félice Lê-Scherban ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Mexican Migrants ◽  
Access To Health

scholarly journals Circular, Invisible, and Ambiguous Migrants: Components of Difference in Estimates of the Number of Unauthorized Mexican Migrants in the United States

Demography ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 411
Author(s):  
Frank D. Bean ◽  
Rodolfo Corona ◽  
Rodolfo Tuiran ◽  
Karen A. Woodrow-Lafield ◽  
Jennifer van Hook
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mexican Migrants

“We are not ignorant”: Transnational migrants’ experiences of racialized securitization

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Ybarra
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
State Violence ◽  
Central American ◽  
Immigration Enforcement ◽  
Mexican Migrants ◽  
Legal Violence ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
Mexican State ◽  
The Us ◽  
Transnational Migrants

This paper examines the dynamics of racialized securitization for transnational migrants across multiple borders—from Central America toward Mexico and the United States. Rather than a singular process where US policies, funding, and attitudes toward border security direct Mexican immigration enforcement, I argue that Mexican state collaboration redirects US xenophobia away from Mexican migrants and toward Central American migrants. Migrants’ testimonies point to the ways that US and Mexican discourses are mobilized in different—but complementary—ways that shape them as racialized subjects with differential life chances. This is clearest through a crude mapping of people onto nationalities for deportation based on hair, language, and tattoos. Beyond legal violence, deported migrants describe their vulnerability as constructed within tacit networks of collaboration between actors in the US and Mexico, both licit and illicit, in an effort to extort migrants and their families. While race is a key signifier in border securitization, the differences between these racial states have material consequences in the differential state violence in immigration enforcement.

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