Back home: Well-being of return migrants in Mexico

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

Since 2008, the return migration of Mexican migrants from the US increased due to the economic crisis and the anti-immigrant policies implemented after 9/11. At the same time, Mexico has undergone a socioeconomic crisis that comprises very low levels of economic growth and the rise of social violence. In this context, little is known about how return migrants are integrating into receiving communities in Mexico. This panel aims to fill this gap by exploring the well-being of return migrants in diverse areas such as social connections, health and education outcomes. The goals of the panel are to better identify the conditions under which return migrants settle in Mexico and the barriers they encounter in their integration or re-integration, as well as to outline new intervention areas that could involve the Mexican State and transnational communities.

Sub Track

• Migration, Displacements, Diasporas

Session Organizer

• Eunice D Vargas Valle, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

Chair

• Guillermo Yrizar Barbosa, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Discussant

• Josiah Heyman, University of Texas at El Paso

Individual Presentations

• The effects of unauthorized status and employment verification laws on occupational injuries: Evidence from Mexican return migrants - Pedro Paulo Orraca Romano, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

• Coming together: Care and masculinities among long-time U.S. residents deported to Mexico - Tobin M Hansen, University of Oregon

• School integration of recent Mexican returnees from the US in a border context - Eunice D Vargas Valle, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

• Reintegration contexts: return migration and multilevel policies in Mexico - Rodolfo Cruz Piñeiro, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte