Migrant and Refugee Integration in Mexico

Nuty Cárdenas-Alaminos is a Research Professor in the Division of International Studies at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico, and a member of the Mexican National Research System. She specializes in migratory policies and governance, along with integration policies in North America. Karla A. Valenzuela Moreno is a full-​time professor in the Department of International Studies at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, where she teaches in the Master’s program in Migration Studies. A member of the Mexican National Research System, her research interests include international migration, diaspora studies, immigrant integration, and bordering practices. Liliana Meza-González was an economist who graduated from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico, and from the University of Houston, where she got her PhD with a specialization in labor economics. Liliana was a fellow researcher at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University, as well as a visiting scholar at the American University in Washington, DC. She has more than 60 publications on the Mexican labor market and on migration to and from Mexico, among other topics. She was a part of the Mexican National Research System since 1999. She was a full-​time professor and researcher in the Department of International Studies at Universidad Iberoamericana, where she coordinated the Master’s program in Migration Studies.

Introduction

Nuty Cárdenas-Alaminos and Karla A. Valenzuela Moreno

Part 1: From Federal to Local Integration Policies

1. Barriers to Migrant Integration Policy in Mexico: Explaining Why

Elena Sánchez-Montijano

2. State Regulatory Frameworks on the Integration of Migrants in Mexico

Liliana Meza-González and Félix Vélez Fernández-Varela

3. Local State governments' and civil society organizations' response to return migration in Mexico

Nuty Cárdenas-Alaminos

Part 2: Perceptions towards Migrants and Refugees: A Federal and Local Analysis

4. Mexican Society's Attitude Toward Migrants in Crisis Contexts

Elena Sánchez-Montijano and Gerardo Maldonado

5. What do Mexicans Think about Newcomers? A Qualitative Analysis of Immigrant Local Perceptions

Karla A. Valenzuela Moreno and Marilyn G. Román Bejarano

6. Migration and Local Integration. An Experience from the Southern Border of Mexico

Martha Luz Rojas-Wiesner

Part 3: Migrant and Refugee Integration Governance in Local Contexts

7. Refugees in Tijuana: A Case-study on the Changing Landscape on Asylum and Migration in Mexico

Carlos S. Ibarra and Rodolfo Cruz Piñeiro

8. Migratory Landscapes: Challenges for the Integration of Migrants in the Metropolitan Area of Monterrey

Victoria Ríos-Infante and Eloísa Román-Fajardo

9. Actors in Jalisco Working on Processes for Integrating People in Contexts of Human Mobility

Adriana González-Arias

10. Facing the New Challenges of Migration through the Promotion of Local Actions in Western and Northern States of Mexico

Karina Arias Muñoz and Iliana Martínez Hernández Mejía