Publisher's Synopsis
"More than two million Mexican migrants returned to Mexico from the United States in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. In this book, Claudia Masferrer, Erin R. Hamilton, and Nicole Denier present the lives of thirty-four people who returned to Mexico City from the United States in the 1990s and 2000s, a period in which U.S. immigration policy became increasingly focused on restriction and enforcement. The authors find that the experience of return migration to Mexico City during this period, after a relatively long time in non-citizen, mostly undocumented status as an immigrant in the United States, leaves the return migrant norteado, "disoriented or lost." Return migrants have trouble finding health care and social services, family life is upended, and economic mobility is limited. The authors discuss what can be done about the hardships of return migration to Mexico City, exploring how existing policies could be expan
