{"title":"Emigrar y retornar en el circuito migratorio península de Yucatán-California-Oregón-Oklahoma: experiencias de la segunda generación maya yucateca","authors":"Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez","doi":"10.1525/msem.2023.39.1.59","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:A más de tres décadas de la migración maya yucateca a Estados Unidos (1990–2018), se tiene noticia del retorno familiar a Yucatán con hijos nacidos en Estados Unidos y del regreso reciente de esta generación a Estados Unidos. Con base en la perspectiva teórica del retorno transnacional, en este artículo analizo cómo las experiencias de retorno y los procesos de integración laboral y social de la generación migrante en México se entrelazan con el regreso reciente de la segunda generación de México a Estados Unidos. Argumento que emigrar y retornar transnacionalmente son estrategias de sobrevivencia familiar que conectan a múltiples generaciones de migrantes y no migrantes en redes familiares extensas y comunitarias a lo largo del circuito migratorio península de Yucatán-California-Oregón-Oklahoma. Finalmente, el artículo también muestra cómo la segunda generación maya yucateca retornada a Estados Unidos ha desarrollado un sentido de identidad y una vida familiar transnacional que la vincula con nuevas experiencias y relaciones locales-comunitarias en Yucatán y Estados Unidos.Abstract:After thirty years of the Yucatecan Mayan migration to the United States (1990–2018), the Yucatec Mayas have been returning to Yucatán with US-born children, and, more recently, this second generation of Yucatec Mayas raised in Yucatán has been returning to the United States. Drawing on transnational return theory, this article analyzes the experience of family return to Yucatán and the labor and social integration of the migrant generation, as well as the return of the second generation from Yucatán to the United States. I argue that experiences of transnational return reveal family strategies for survival that connect multiple generations of migrants and nonmigrant workers in wide family and community networks through the migratory circuit of Yucatán-California-Oregon-Oklahoma. Finally, I also show that upon return to the United States, the second-generation Yucatec Maya develops a sense of identity and transnational family life that connect them with new experiences and community relations in Yucatán and the United States.","PeriodicalId":44006,"journal":{"name":"MEXICAN STUDIES-ESTUDIOS MEXICANOS","volume":"39 1","pages":"59 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"MEXICAN STUDIES-ESTUDIOS MEXICANOS","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1525/msem.2023.39.1.59","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:A más de tres décadas de la migración maya yucateca a Estados Unidos (1990–2018), se tiene noticia del retorno familiar a Yucatán con hijos nacidos en Estados Unidos y del regreso reciente de esta generación a Estados Unidos. Con base en la perspectiva teórica del retorno transnacional, en este artículo analizo cómo las experiencias de retorno y los procesos de integración laboral y social de la generación migrante en México se entrelazan con el regreso reciente de la segunda generación de México a Estados Unidos. Argumento que emigrar y retornar transnacionalmente son estrategias de sobrevivencia familiar que conectan a múltiples generaciones de migrantes y no migrantes en redes familiares extensas y comunitarias a lo largo del circuito migratorio península de Yucatán-California-Oregón-Oklahoma. Finalmente, el artículo también muestra cómo la segunda generación maya yucateca retornada a Estados Unidos ha desarrollado un sentido de identidad y una vida familiar transnacional que la vincula con nuevas experiencias y relaciones locales-comunitarias en Yucatán y Estados Unidos.Abstract:After thirty years of the Yucatecan Mayan migration to the United States (1990–2018), the Yucatec Mayas have been returning to Yucatán with US-born children, and, more recently, this second generation of Yucatec Mayas raised in Yucatán has been returning to the United States. Drawing on transnational return theory, this article analyzes the experience of family return to Yucatán and the labor and social integration of the migrant generation, as well as the return of the second generation from Yucatán to the United States. I argue that experiences of transnational return reveal family strategies for survival that connect multiple generations of migrants and nonmigrant workers in wide family and community networks through the migratory circuit of Yucatán-California-Oregon-Oklahoma. Finally, I also show that upon return to the United States, the second-generation Yucatec Maya develops a sense of identity and transnational family life that connect them with new experiences and community relations in Yucatán and the United States.
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The rich cultural production and unique peoples of Mexico--coupled with the country"s complex history, political legacy, social character, economy, and scientific development--lay the foundation for the bilingual Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, the only U.S. published academic journal of its kind. Journal articles in both English and Spanish are welcomed from a variety of multidisciplinary perspectives and methodologies, comparative analyses notwithstanding. All content published remains focused on the contributions to and knowledge of Mexican studies as a discipline.