Return to Mexico: Migration and the pluralization of kinship

返回墨西哥：移民和亲属关系的多元化

• 批准号: 506034487
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Julia Pauli
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Department of Anthropology
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/506034487?language=en
• 关键词: Return; Mexico; Migration; pluralization; kinship

During the last fifteen years, more Mexican migrants have returned from the USA than entered the country. So far, this remarkable reversal of one of the largest migration movements in the world is only partially understood. Most studies on Mexican return migration scrutinize the economic success or failure of returnees’ reintegration into the Mexican labor market. Despite acknowledging the relevance of family as a central motive for return, only few studies have examined the importance of kinship in any greater depth. This is the more astonishing given the profound changes in kin relations Mexico has experienced during the last decades, a trend indicated, for example, by rising divorce rates. Analyzing return migration and increasing kin diversity together, the project wants to explore how return migrants shape and are shaped by these social changes. The pluralization of kinship strongly varies between rural and urban Mexico. In rural Mexico, mainly male migrants return, while in urban centers one finds increasing numbers of female returnees. Comparing rural and urban Mexican return migrants, the project adds knowledge on spatial and social aspects of returning, thus contributing to a better understanding of new forms of belonging in highly mobile life worlds.

在过去的15年里，从美国返回的墨西哥移民比进入美国的移民还要多。到目前为止，人们对世界上最大的移民运动之一的这一显著逆转只有部分了解。大多数关于墨西哥返回移民的研究都仔细审查了返回者重新融入墨西哥劳动力市场的经济成功或失败。尽管承认家庭是返回的主要动机，但只有少数研究更深入地探讨了亲属关系的重要性。考虑到墨西哥在过去几十年中经历的亲属关系的深刻变化，例如离婚率的上升就表明了这一趋势，这就更加令人惊讶了。分析返回移民和增加亲属多样性在一起，该项目希望探讨如何返回移民形状，并通过这些社会变化塑造。墨西哥农村和城市之间亲属关系的多元化存在很大差异。在墨西哥农村，主要是男性移民返回，而在城市中心，人们发现越来越多的女性返回。通过比较墨西哥农村和城市的回返移民，该项目增加了关于回返的空间和社会方面的知识，从而有助于更好地理解高度移动的生活世界中的新的归属形式。