1st Edition
Migrant and Refugee Integration in Mexico Governance, Civil Society, and Public Opinion
Although Mexican emigration to the United States is still relevant, it has also become a return, transit, and recipient country for thousands of refugees. Now, many of these migrants, refugees, and their families stay on Mexican soil territory, trying to integrate within Mexican society.
This book brings together leading experts in Mexico and covers the political dimension of integration for migrants in Mexico analyzing integration policies, civil society efforts, and public opinion from various angles. In this context, many questions arise. Among the most relevant: What has the federal government done to assist these migrant groups, who often arrive in conditions of great vulnerability? What policies have been implemented at the subnational level of government to adequately integrate these population groups? What actions have been implemented by other local actors, such as civil society organizations? What do Mexicans think about newcomers?
Migrant and Refugee Integration in Mexico will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including international relations, development studies, anthropology, international studies, sociology, and Latin American studies.
Introduction
Nuty Cárdenas-Alaminos and Karla A. Valenzuela Moreno
Part 1: From Federal to Local Integration Policies
1. Barriers to Migrant Integration Policy in Mexico: Explaining Why
Elena Sánchez-Montijano
2. State Regulatory Frameworks on the Integration of Migrants in Mexico
Liliana Meza-González and Félix Vélez Fernández-Varela
3. Local State governments' and civil society organizations' response to return migration in Mexico
Nuty Cárdenas-Alaminos
Part 2: Perceptions towards Migrants and Refugees: A Federal and Local Analysis
4. Mexican Society's Attitude Toward Migrants in Crisis Contexts
Elena Sánchez-Montijano and Gerardo Maldonado
5. What do Mexicans Think about Newcomers? A Qualitative Analysis of Immigrant Local Perceptions
Karla A. Valenzuela Moreno and Marilyn G. Román Bejarano
6. Migration and Local Integration. An Experience from the Southern Border of Mexico
Martha Luz Rojas-Wiesner
Part 3: Migrant and Refugee Integration Governance in Local Contexts
7. Refugees in Tijuana: A Case-study on the Changing Landscape on Asylum and Migration in Mexico
Carlos S. Ibarra and Rodolfo Cruz Piñeiro
8. Migratory Landscapes: Challenges for the Integration of Migrants in the Metropolitan Area of Monterrey
Victoria Ríos-Infante and Eloísa Román-Fajardo
9. Actors in Jalisco Working on Processes for Integrating People in Contexts of Human Mobility
Adriana González-Arias
10. Facing the New Challenges of Migration through the Promotion of Local Actions in Western and Northern States of Mexico
Karina Arias Muñoz and Iliana Martínez Hernández Mejía
Biography
Nuty Cárdenas-Alaminos is a Research Professor in the Division of International Studies at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico, and a member of the Mexican National Research System. She specializes in migratory policies and governance, along with integration policies in North America.
Karla A. Valenzuela Moreno is a full-time professor in the Department of International Studies at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, where she teaches in the Master’s program in Migration Studies. A member of the Mexican National Research System, her research interests include international migration, diaspora studies, immigrant integration, and bordering practices.
Liliana Meza-González was an economist who graduated from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico, and from the University of Houston, where she got her PhD with a specialization in labor economics. Liliana was a fellow researcher at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University, as well as a visiting scholar at the American University in Washington, DC. She has more than 60 publications on the Mexican labor market and on migration to and from Mexico, among other topics. She was a part of the Mexican National Research System since 1999. She was a full-time professor and researcher in the Department of International Studies at Universidad Iberoamericana, where she coordinated the Master’s program in Migration Studies.
