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Title: An Intergenerational Migration Experience: Social Mobility Among Return Migrants and Their Families in Mexico

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: This study examines intergenerational social mobility pathways within families of mixed migratory status. Focusing on the residents of Leon, Mexico, I use a mixed methods analysis of interviews and survey data on 50 return migrants to Leon to identify signs of intergenerational social mobility within their families. The study finds that parental return migration plays a role in determining a family’s potential for upward mobility. Findings show that migrants’ labor market experiences, both abroad and upon return to the origin country, influence their likelihood of intergenerational social mobility. Labor market experiences prove especially influential over these families’ mobility pathways, with these experiences directly affecting the occupational and educational opportunities of the return migrants and their children, respectively. The study ultimately demonstrates international migration’s potential to disrupt social class reproduction and highlights the implications of migration on the future economic success of migrant families with low levels of traditional human capital.

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Authors: Viera, Janelle, A

Institution: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Department: Sociology

Advisor: Jacqueline M. Hagen

Degree: Master of Arts

Publisher Location: Chapel Hill, NC

Pages: 63

Data Collections: IPUMS International

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Population Mobility and Spatial Demography, Race and Ethnicity

Countries: Mexico