MII Workshop: The Returned: Former U.S. Migrants’ Lives in Mexico City

Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop presentation by Dr. Claudia Masferrer, Dr. Erin R. Hamilton, and Dr. Nicole Denier

Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center on International Affairs-Immigration Initiative at Harvard (IIH)

In the first two decades of the 21st century, more than two million Mexican migrants returned to Mexico from the United States. Between 2010 and 2020, the number of people who returned to Mexico was so large that, for the first time in at least fifty years, more people entered Mexico from the United States than entered the United States from Mexico. Many of these migrants were destined for urban areas, and we know little about how they fare after they return to cities. In The Returned, sociologists Claudia Masferrer, Erin R. Hamilton, and Nicole Denier examine the experiences of returned migrants in Mexico City, one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world.