Open Access¿Las raíces en el lado equivocado de sus vidas? Jóvenes retornados y deportados desde Estados Unidos a Guanajuato
Author(s) -
Ana Vila Freyer
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
migraciones internacionales
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.258
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2594-0279
pISSN - 1665-8906
DOI - 10.33679/rmi.v1i1.2295
Subject(s) - transnationalism , identity (music) , sword , ethnology , gender studies , latin americans , state (computer science) , humanities , drug trafficking , immigration , political science , geography , sociology , art , criminology , politics , algorithm , computer science , law , aesthetics , operating system
Thisarticle analyzes the experience narrated by young migrant returnees and deportees from the United States, settled in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. Based ontheirexperience, we discuss the explanatory limits of the perspectives of transnationalism and return migration. The cases analyzed allow us to determinethat when migrating from North to South,young people undergo an adaptation process supported by family networksthat nonetheless constitutea double-edged sword: while facilitating their integration in Mexico, family membersalso provide their first encounter withdiscrimination, which theywill later experience in other contexts. Although initially,young people forced toreturn find themselves caged in by these intangible resources, they also overcome them by expanding their identity repertoires and reconstructingtheir sense of belonging to Mexico. This workseeksto highlight the need to develop a research agenda focused on young migrants, to whom it is difficult to extrapolate existing analytical perspectives.