La conformación de uniones mixtas entre personas inmigrantes y nativas se ha considerado un elemento central en el proceso de integración social, sobre todo cuando intervienen atributos como la nacionalidad y la identidad étnica. Aunque este tema ha sido ampliamente investigado en otros contextos, ha recibido menos atención en México. Este artículo busca analizar las dimensiones relacionadas con el proyecto migratorio, los discursos sobre la diferencia en México y el efecto del mestizaje sobre la formación de uniones y dinámicas de socialización de las personas. A partir de un acercamiento cualitativo que comprende el análisis de treinta y dos relatos de vida de inmigrantes latinoamericanos residentes en México, se encontró que este tipo de arreglos sociales no se traducen de manera directa en el debilitamiento de fronteras sociales, sino que pueden constituirse, en algunos casos, en elementos de reforzamiento de las barreras que dificultan la integración en distintas esferas de reproducción social.

By using innovative microlevel data from Colombia’s civil war, this article examines protests, one of many actions that civilians employ to resists peacefully armed actors during civil war. By using a cost-benefit analysis, the author argues that inhabitants can mobilize and solve their collective action problem when the costs of migrating or supporting one side in a war are too expensive. By examining the civil conflict on Colombia between 1988 and 2010, the author finds that civilians are likely to protest armed actors under three conditions. First, autonomous communities, which enjoy benefits associated with their territory, are likely to protest because migration would be costly; moreover, the institutional strength of these communities can decrease the costs of mobilization against armed actors. Second, foreign aid distributed through nongovernmental associations can empower individuals to take action by providing selective incentives for mobilization, thus decreasing costs. Last, high levels of violence, up to a certain threshold, increase the costs of nonparticipation and induce civilian action.

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They Should Stay There: The Story of Mexican Migration and Repatriation during the Great Depression. By Fernando Saúl Alanís Enciso. Translated by Russ Davidson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. xxvi + 272. $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781469634265. (Original work published in 2007 as Que se queden allá: El gobierno de México y la repatriación de mexicanos en Estados Unidos, 1934–1940).

Deported Americans: Life after Deportation to Mexico. By Beth C. Caldwell. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. Pp. xii + 248. $25.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781478003908.

Outsourcing Welfare: How the Money Immigrants Send Home Contributes to Stability in Developing Countries. By Roy Germano. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. x + 227. $33.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9780190862848.

The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants. By Adam Goodman. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. ix + 336. $19.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780691204208.

Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom. By Mireya Loza. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Pp. xiii +254. $29.95 paperback ISBN: 9781469629766.

Risking Immeasurable Harm: Immigration Restriction and US-Mexican Diplomatic Relations, 1924–1932. By Benjamin C. Montoya. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020. Pp. xiii + 342. $55.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781496201294.

Diplomacia migratoria: Una historia transnacional del Programa Bracero, 1947–1952. By Catherine Vézina. Mexico City: Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2018. Pp. xi + 404. $13.99 e-book. ISBN: 9786078508082.

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• From Strangers to Neighbors: Post-disaster Resettlement and Community Building in Honduras. By Ryan Alaniz. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017. Pp. xv + 216. $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781477314098.

• The Migrant Passage: Clandestine Journeys from Central America. By Noelle Kateri Brigden. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018. Pp. 264. $24.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781501730559.

• The Democracy Development Machine: Neoliberalism, Radical Pessimism, and Authoritarian Populism in Mayan Guatemala. By Nicholas Copeland. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. 282. $24.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781501736063.

• The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup. By Dana Frank. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2018. Pp. 344. $17.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781608469604.

• Caravana: Cómo el éxodo Centroamericano salió de la clandestinidad. By Alberto Pradilla. Mexico City: Penguin Random House, 2019. Paperback. Pp. 293. ISBN: 9786073180511.

• Sexto Estado de la Región 2021: Versión completa. San José, Costa Rica: Consejo Nacional de Rectores (CONARE); Programa Estado de la Nación (PEN), 2021. PDF. Pp. 476. ISBN: 9789930607138. Datos electrónicos, https://estadonacion.or.cr/informe/?id=332ae9fc-d7c0-4886-a8cd-b67ea5f0ac38.

• A House of One’s Own: The Moral Economy of Post-disaster Aid in El Salvador. By Alicia Sliwinski. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018. Pp. x + 264. $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780773552920.

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Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil. By Jacob Blanc. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. Pp. 320. $27.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781478004899.

For Land and Liberty: Black Struggles in Rural Brazil. By Merle L. Bowen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xxii + 248. $99.99 hardcover. ISBN: 9781108832359.

Agriculture and Industry in Brazil: Innovation and Competitiveness. By Albert Fishlow and José Eustáquio Ribeiro Vieira Filho. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv + 244. $70.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780231549523.

Migration and the Making of Industrial São Paulo. By Paulo Fontes. Foreword by Barbara Weinstein. Translated from the Portuguese by Ned Sublette. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. Pp. xvi + 280. $27.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780822361343.

An Economic and Demographic History of São Paulo 1850–1950. By Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxviii + 448. $75.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781503602007.

Brazil’s Long Revolution: Radical Achievements of the Landless Workers Movement. By Anthony Pahnke. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2018. Pp. xx + 274. $65.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780816536030.

Affect-based studies consider that peoples’ lives and behaviors cannot be entirely grasped and understood by rational choice models. The main goal of this article is to understand how factors like sexuality and migration affect the relations between people and spaces. Following Spinoza’s Ethics and subsequent interpretations, the article considers that bodies are influenced by previous interactions and act accordingly, and that space is a relational mode of substance perceived through attributes and modes affecting individuals and articulating the relationship of space, sexuality, and migration. This research studies same-sex-attracted men who moved to Tijuana, Mexico. Results show that affects (expressed through actions and passions) inform people’s relations to space based on their valorization of life events and expectations; that the meanings of space are personally constructed, relational, volatile, and invisible to others; and that most interviewees didn’t feel comfortable avowing to the gay identity but identified themselves as such, since, to some extent, gayness can escape from the moral stigma of male-male interaction in Latin America.

Con el retorno reciente de los migrantes mexicanos, miles de estudiantes con experiencia escolar en Estados Unidos se incorporaron a las escuelas mexicanas. El objetivo de este artículo es analizar la adaptación lingüística de estos estudiantes en una ciudad con alto retorno, Tijuana, México. Se utiliza metodología mixta que comprende el análisis de la Encuesta de Migración e Integración Escolar 2017, así como treinta y seis entrevistas semiestructuradas realizadas a estudiantes transnacionales en 2018 y 2019. Los hallazgos sugieren un proceso paulatino de aprendizaje del español y pérdida del inglés a mayor tiempo en México desde el último arribo, así como la existencia de competencias lingüísticas desiguales según la socialización escolar en cada país, el país de identificación cultural y nacimiento, el capital económico, social y cultural de los hogares, y los apoyos de maestros y compañeros. Se requieren políticas públicas que favorezcan el bilingüismo en las escuelas de ambos países.

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Cultural and Literary Dialogues Between Asia and Latin America. Edited by Axel Gasquet and Gorica Majstorovic. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. Pp. xiii + 274. $54.99 paperback. ISBN: 9783030525705.

The Japanese Empire and Latin America. Edited by Pedro Iacobelli and Sidney Xu Lu. Honolulu: Honolulu University Press, 2023. Pp. 310. $24.99 Kindle. ISBN: 9780824892999.

East Asia, Latin America, and the Decolonization of Transpacific Studies. Edited by Chiara Olivieri y Jordi Serrano-Muñoz. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Pp. xvii + 274. $54.99 paperback. ISBN: 9783030745271.

Peligro amarillo: La sombra de Japón durante la Revolución Mexicana. By Victor Kerber Palma. Mexico City: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, 2021. Pp. 396. MXN $400 paperback. ISBN: 9786074461695.

Race and Migration in the Transpacific. Edited by Yasuko Takezawa and Akio Tanabe. New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. xiv + 265. $29.59 paper, $128.00 hardcover. ISBN: 1032210206.

The Migration of Chinese Women to Mexico City. Ximena Alba Villalever. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. Pp. xv + 172. $129.99 paperback. ISBN: 9783030924218.

La política migratoria de Trump da continuidad al retorno de mexicanos a su país de origen. La magnitud del flujo, la alta presencia de niñas, niños y adolescentes y la complejidad y diversidad de sus trayectorias y características constituyen elementos distintivos del actual retorno. Uno de los estados mexicanos que más migración en retorno recibe es el de Oaxaca, configurado desde los años ochenta como uno de los principales expulsores de migrantes a Estados Unidos que ahora regresan acompañados de sus hijos menores. Consecuentemente, el sistema educativo, principal vía de (re)inserción de la niñez y la adolescencia a la sociedad en contextos migratorios, experimenta una mayor demanda de servicios por parte de esta población en edad escolar con características y necesidades distintivas. Los hallazgos de esta investigación muestran los principales elementos que impiden la (re)inserción al sistema educativo mexicano de las niñas, niños y adolescentes procedentes de Estados Unidos y sus consecuencias.

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Making Immigrants in Modern Argentina. By Julia Albarracín. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020. Pp. xiii + 268. $55.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780268107611.

Argentina in the Global Middle East. By Lily Pearl Balloffet. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. ix + 223. $30.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781503613010.

To Belong in Buenos Aires: Germans, Argentines, and the Rise of a Pluralist Society. By Benjamin Bryce. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. Pp. xi + 248. $65.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781503601536.

Immigration and National Identities in Latin America. Edited by Nicola Foote and Michael Goebel. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017. Pp. vii + 366. $74.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9780813060002.

Postwar Emigration to South America from Japan and the Ryukyu Islands. By Pedro Iacobelli. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Pp. vi + 262. $91.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781474297271.

Jesus Loves Japan: Return Migration and Global Pentecostalism in a Brazilian Diaspora. By Suma Ikeuchi. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019. Pp. xvii + 235. $90.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781503607965.

Between Exile and Exodus: Argentinian Jewish Immigration to Israel, 1948–1967. By Sebastian Klor. Translated by Lenn Schramm. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2017. Pp. ix + 264. $54.99 hardcover. ISBN: 9780814343678.

Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora. By Devi Mays. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. ix + 341. $30.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781503613218.

The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race. By Anthony Christian Ocampo. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. Pp. 272. $22.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780804797542.

Migrantes y refugiados en la posguerra mundial: La corriente organizada de españoles hacia Argentina, 1946–1962. By Emilio Redondo Carrero. Madrid: Sílex Universidad, 2018. Pp. ii + 580. $28.59 paperback. ISBN: 9788477376668.

Global Pulls on the Korean Communities in São Paulo and Buenos Aires. By Won K. Yoon. Lanham, MD: Roman and Littlefield. 2016. Pp. ix + 185. $88.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781498508421.

Mad Flight? The Quebec Emigration to the Coffee Plantations of Brazil. By John Zucchi. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press. 2018. iii + 205. CAD $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780773553590.

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Peruvian Lives across Borders: Power, Exclusion, and Home. By M. Cristina Alcalde. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 230. $28.00 paperback. ISBN: 9780252083464.

Decolonizing Ethnography: Undocumented Immigrants and New Directions in Social Science. By Carolina Alonso Bejarano, Lucia López Juárez, Mirian A. Mijangos García, and Daniel M. Goldstein. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. Pp. xi + 184. $24.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781478003953.

Accountability across Borders: Migrant Rights in North America. Edited by Xóchitl Bada and Shannon Gleeson. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019. Pp. vii + 325. $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781477318362.

Emigrants Get Political: Mexican Migrants Engage Their Home Towns. By Michael S. Danielson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 264. $74.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780190679972.

Telling Migrant Stories: Latin American Diaspora in Documentary Film. Edited by Esteban E. Loustaunau and Lauren E. Shaw. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018. Pp. 339. $89.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9781683400233.

The Immigrant Rights Movement: The Battle over National Citizenship. By Walter J. Nicholls. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019. Pp. xi + 296. $25.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781503609327.

Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration. By Ana Raquel Minian. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. 328. $29.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9780674737037.

The Undocumented Everyday: Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility. By Rebecca M. Schreiber. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. Pp. vii + 370. $30.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781517900236.

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China y América Latina en una nueva fase: Desafíos en el siglo XXI. Edited by Pamela Aróstica and Walter Sánchez. Santiago de Chile: Editorial Universitaria, 2019. Pp. 270. ISBN: 9789561126268.

China–Latin America Relations in the 21st Century: The Dual Complexities of Opportunities and Challenges. Edited by Raúl Bernal-Meza and Li Xing. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Pp. 289. $79.64 hardcover. ISBN: 9783030356132.

Sino–Latin American Economic and Trade Relations. Edited by Chai Yu and Yue Yunxia. Singapore: Springer, 2019. Pp. 193. $64.50 hardcover. ISBN: 9789811334047.

China, the United States, and the Future of Latin America. Edited by David B. H. Denoon. New York: New York University Press, 2017. Pp. 432. $39.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781479821648.

Globalizing Patient Capital: The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas. By Stephen B. Kaplan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 390. $84.99 hardcover. ISBN: 9781107182318.

Dependency in the Twenty-First Century? The Political Economy of China-Latin America Relations. By Barbara Stallings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 75. $20.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781108793032.

Dragonomics: How Latin America Is Maximizing (or Missing Out on) China’s International Development Strategy. By Carol Wise. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 328. $36.57 hardcover. ISBN: 9780300224092.

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North American Borders in Comparative Perspective. Edited by Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera and Victor Konrad. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2020. Pp. xiv, 408. $40.00 paperback. ISBN: 9780816539529.

Fencing In Democracy: Border Walls, Necrocitizenship, and the Security State. By Miguel Díaz-Barriga and Margaret E. Dorsey. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. ix, 178. $24.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781478006930.

Border Optics: Surveillance Cultures on the US-Mexico Frontier. By Camilla Fojas. New York: New York University Press, 2021. Pp. 208. $28.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781479807017.

The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War. By Peter Guardino. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. 502. $39.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9780674972346.

Illusions of Empire: The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. By William S. Kiser. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. Pp. 262. $55.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780812253511.

The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature, Translation, and Historiography. By Carmen E. Lamas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. ix, 277. $80.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780198871484.

Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands. By Kelly Lytle Hernández. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2022. Pp. 384. $30.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781324004370.

Border Citizens: The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona. By Eric V. Meeks. Revised edition. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020. Pp. xi, 368. $32.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781477319659.

Refugiados climáticos: Un gran reto del siglo XXI. By Miguel Pajares. Barcelona: Rayo Verde Editorial, 2020. Pp. 280. $33.00 paperback. ISBN: 9788417925345.