La reconfiguración familiar de los migrantes deportados en la frontera norte de México

Toughening U.S. anti-immigrant policy has led to the expulsion of millions of migrants over the last twenty years, with consequences for their families. This article analyzes the reconfiguration of deported migrants’ families along Mexico’s northern border. The study’s mixed methodology analyzes the...

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Authors: Ibarra González, José, Vargas-Valle, Eunice
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2021
Country:México
Institution:Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Repository:Memoria Institucional CISAN, Repositorio Institucional, UNAM
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:ru.micisan.unam.mx:123456789/162
Online Access:https://ru.micisan.unam.mx/handle/123456789/162
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:CIENCIAS SOCIALES
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deportation
family
separation
reunification
transnational
deportación
familia
separación
reunificación
transnacional
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Summary:Toughening U.S. anti-immigrant policy has led to the expulsion of millions of migrants over the last twenty years, with consequences for their families. This article analyzes the reconfiguration of deported migrants’ families along Mexico’s northern border. The study’s mixed methodology analyzes the 2014 National Demographic Dynamics Survey and thirty-one semi-structured interviews with deportees in Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez. The quantitative findings indicate that among deportees, the percentage of non-family homes is greater and that of nuclear-family homes, smaller, than among returnees and non-migrants. Based on the interviews, the authors present a typology of the most common family arrangements among deported migrants, allowing us to understand the effect of immigration policy on family separation across borders.