A multi‐scalar critical analysis of return migration policies in Mexico

Services and resources for migrants returning to Mexico are necessary to ease their transition and “re‐integration” into home communities. Policies that do not have a holistic approach can result in serious implications for the social, political, cultural, and health of returnees, receiving families...

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Published inInternational migration Vol. 61; no. 6; pp. 175 - 192
Main Authors Fernández‐Sánchez, Higinio, Salma, Jordana, Dorow, Sara, Salami, Bukola
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.12.2023
Subjects
Analysis
Community
Data analysis
Families & family life
Health care
Health services
Holistic approach
Immigration policy
Inequality
Intersectionality
Leadership
Medical personnel
Migrants
Migration
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Policies
Policy analysis
Return migration
Women
Mexico
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Summary:Services and resources for migrants returning to Mexico are necessary to ease their transition and “re‐integration” into home communities. Policies that do not have a holistic approach can result in serious implications for the social, political, cultural, and health of returnees, receiving families, and communities. This research critically analyses return migration policies in Mexico drawing from the intersectionality‐based policy analysis framework and a multi‐scalar approach to critically study return migration policies in Mexico. We analysed 20 return migration policies using the principles of the intersectionality‐based policy analysis framework. In 2021, we interviewed those impacted by return migration policies in Veracruz, Mexico to gain deeper insights into return migration policies. Women who stayed behind, return migrants, community leaders, and health‐care providers were interviewed via phone or face‐to‐face in Spanish. Information was transcribed verbatim and analysed with the aid of computer‐assisted data analysis software and quotes were translated into English. They shed light on two major inequities in policies: (1) the lack of acknowledgement of diversity or return migrants and (2) the exclusion of receiving families and communities from the “re‐integration” process of return migrants. Based on the multi‐scalar critical policy analysis, return migration policies in Mexico would benefit from a more comprehensive and inclusive approach where the needs of return migrants and community members are protected based on their diversity.
ISSN:0020-7985
1468-2435
DOI:10.1111/imig.13157