abstract: United States and Mexico population statistics show clear evidence of return migration. This study uses qualitative data collected in a municipality in the State of Mexico during the summer of 2010 from families comprised of Mexican nationals and United States-born children post-relocation to Mexico. Using Portes and Zhou's theoretical framework on modes of incorporation, this study illustrates the government policy, societal reception and coethnic community challenges the first and second generation face in their cases of family return migration. This study finds that the municipal government is indifferent to foreign children and their incorporation in Mexico schools. Furthermore, extended family and community, may not always aid the household's adaptation to Mexico. Despite the lack of a coethnic community, parents eventually acclimate into manual and entrepreneurial positions in society and the children contend to find a place called home. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.A. Sociology 2011
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:9307 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Contributors | Medina, Dulce (Author), Menjívar, Cecilia (Advisor), Seline Szkupinski-Quiroga, Seline (Committee member), Glick, Jennifer (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher) |
| Source Sets | Arizona State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Masters Thesis |
| Format | 62 pages |
| Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved |
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