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The Return of Migrants in the USA to Mexico: Impacts and Challenges for Zacatecas

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Social Transformation and Migration

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For over 30 years, international migration has been viewed in Mexico as a unidirectional flow northwards, thus diminishing the importance of migrants who return. However, aspects such as the severe economic crisis in the USA between 2007 and 2013 and its repercussions on unemployment, the long process of militarization of the border since the 1990s, and anti-immigrant legal reforms over the past 15 years have resulted in the return of more than two million Mexican migrants to their homeland in the past five years alone (Gallegos, 2014). This poses new challenges for research and for the design of public policies to address the impacts of that homecoming, in order to help with the reincorporation of those migrants and to support their families.

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© 2015 Rodolfo García Zamora, Alondra Ambriz Nava and Patricia Herrera Castro

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Zamora, R.G., Nava, A.A., Castro, P.H. (2015). The Return of Migrants in the USA to Mexico: Impacts and Challenges for Zacatecas. In: Castles, S., Ozkul, D., Cubas, M.A. (eds) Social Transformation and Migration. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137474957_12

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