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As a cultural institution, the press plays a fundamental role in documenting and forging the public image of migrants. This paper analyzes two thematic axes in the post 9/11 narrative of the New York Times on migration. The image that was created during the year following the terrorist attacks presents on the one hand the Mexican migrant as a potential terrorist and on the other hand migration as a global problem. It is fundamental to problematize the rhetoric about contemporary migration by inserting it in the ideological roots that defined that moment and in the historical framework of the Mexico-United States relationship. The media rhetoric post 9/11 contributed to the emergence of a new international agenda by globalizing this representation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the migration processes and labor incorporation of two professional groups of Mexicans in the United States: engineers and nurses. Certification standards, the ability of migrants to act as agents, and the involvement of various actors in the migratory process are analyzed in order to understand how differentiated labor paths are built within and between each occupational group in the US labor market Other structural factors that helped to understand the processes studied were the motivations to migrate, family and professions networks, and gender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to present the initial results of a study on Maya-Yucatecan migrant women who have settled permanently in Los Angeles, California. The reasons that led them to migrate are addressed as well as the way they came to the United States and joined the work force. Certain aspects that permitted their insertion into Los Angeles society are highlighted, together with identity recovery practices to show that adaptation to the host culture is slow, irregular and incomplete, but enough for them to deploy survival strategies. The paper is based on the assumption that female migration lends this phenomenon specific characteristic that warrant special attention. Accordingly, the analysis of the document is based on an interpretation of the meaning of the actions, for which the content of ten in-depth interviews conducted in Los Angeles in 2012 was used. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to determine the effect of labor income prior to migration on the income obtained by migrants in the destination economy, in the case of temporary Mexican migrants in the United States. The data used comes from the Emif Norte survey conducted between 1999 and 2009. High relative and absolute mobility is observed. Hourly income is multiplied by a factor of four in the destination economy, while the effect of a 10 % increase in labor income in Mexico results in less than a 1 % increase in labor income in the United States. The results show that labor income in Mexico has little predictive power for the job performance of Mexican migrants in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The phenomenon of highly qualified Mexican migration has received little attention, and even less has been given to migrants with post-graduate studies. This is principally due to the scarcity of information sources to directly examine the number of qualified migrants worldwide and their characteristics. This paper offers an indirect estimate of the number of qualified Mexicans residing abroad, a figure estimated at 2.22 million in 2013. Drawing on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, this research analyzes the trends of highly qualified Mexican immigrants in the United States in 1990-2013. It also presents a descriptive analysis with ACS 2011-2013 data for migrants with postgraduate studies in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (stem). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes migration from Mexico to the United States over the past decades and seeks to explain why it began to fall starting in 2008. After providing some background on the historical trends of labor migration to the United States, the article focuses on the place of Mexicans and other Latin Americans in the United States labor market as the context that frames Mexican migration. This work then analyzes the impact of the 2008-2009 recession on Latin American laborers, especially Mexicans, and how migration flows from Mexico have evolved in recent years. The conclusion derived from the analysis of the data and trends observed is that the decline in Mexican migration starting in 2008 can primarily be explained by the behavior of labor demand in the United States, largely determined by the recession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this research paper is to analyze the impact of the Bracero Program from the experience and the sense of life of second generation migrants. We want to reflect what they the children of the laborers think about the participation of their parents in this temporary worker program. We want to recover this experience from their families of origin and how they perceive their own role as children; with this intention we also obtained information on how they see themselves as children of laborers while as cultural heirs of this experience labor. From the qualitative perspective of research we worked with in-depth interviews, with both the children of laborers in Colima, Mexico and Los Angeles, California, as well with their mothers (wives of laborers of the first generation) to obtain this collective memory. We defined categories of analysis that led us to think of a brotherhood identity (vulnerable, uneven and woven by social networks), that is useful to analyze the state of life of the generational heirs of transnational Mexican migration to the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proposes to study the fears that involve the migratory process of Mexicans to the United States, through the analysis of two religious practices: 1) the orisons related to migration, which are difussed by different means; 2) the ex-votos that have been deposited for the last decades in two sanctuaries located at the municipality of Totatiche, Jalisco. This paper brings us near to the study of popular religious practices and the history of the present time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proposes to study the fears that involve the migratory process of Mexicans to the United States, through the analysis of two religious practices: 1) the orisons related to migration, which are difussed by different means; 2) the ex-votos that have been deposited for the last decades in two sanctuaries located at the municipality of Totatiche, Jalisco. This paper brings us near to the study of popular religious practices and the history of the present time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Migrant farm workers figure among the poorest people living in the agricultural counties of the United States and Spain. Migrant farm laborers live in remote areas; suffer from malnutrition, low pay, a high mobile lifestyle, difficult working conditions and precarious living environments. Furthermore, farming operates outside the formal labor market as it constitutes a refuge for illegal immigrants, and social isolation has been reported as one of the main causes of distress among immigrant farm workers. This paper analyses comparatively the situation of labor irregularity and social isolation of Tamaulipas' farm workers employed in US agriculture and Moroccan workers engaged in Andalusia's farming sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The core idea of this paper revolves around movement and change in the process of assimilation of immigrants in the United States and in the conceptual and singular context of trans-border links that emigrants establish with their country of origin, which to some extent grant a particular acceptance within both the paradigm of transnationalism and the category of the transnational migrant. Transnationalism is established as the new transformation of models for the incorporation of immigrants. In the case of Mexican emigrants, the transnational social space is formed via U.S. migratory policy, by the nature and volume of undocumented migration and by the limited actions of the Mexican government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors explore the experience and embodiment of nervios, a folk taxon of illness, among Mexicans immigrants to Chicago (USA). They claim that nervios is an ancient biomedical taxon, reelaborated in folk contexts, and present today in many western (or westernised) societies. First, taking into account the native point of view, they analyse the physical-emotional and social manifestations of illness and the etiological theories. They propose three etiological categories to include nervios' causal explication: organic or natural, emotional, and socio-emotional. Secondly, they focus on various papers on nervios to summarize the etiological theories, distinguishing the social actors assumptions from interpretation made by the authors, what permits the authors to contrast Mexicans immigrants etiological theories with the bibliographical data on this subject. Thirdly, the authors claim that both nervios manifestation and etiological theories are similar in different socio-cultural groups, discussing the affirmation of Low (1985 and 1994), who argues that although the reported bodilily sensations are similar in a variety of cultures, folk explanations of etiology and cultural meaning varied considerably. Then, the authors explore the pathway of healing in a case of study, in order to analyse the meanings of therapeutic complementariness and the medicines overlapped. Finally, they reflect on the role played by the ancient biomedical theories and the folk western tradition to explain nervios similarity in a variety of contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]