Migrant and Refugee Integration in Mexico

Nuty Cárdenas-Alaminos is Research Professor at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) and member of the Mexican National Research System. She specializes in migratory policies and governance, along with integration policies in North America. Karla Valenzuela-Moreno is a full-time professor in the Department of International Studies at Universidad Iberoamericana, where teaches the Masters 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, Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) was an economist who graduated from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), and from the University of Houston—where she got her Ph.D. 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 part of the Mexican National Research System since 1999. She was a full-time professor and researcher at the Department of International Studies at Universidad Iberoamericana, where she coordinated the Master’s on Migration Studies.

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 responses to return migration in Mexico Nuty Cárdenas Alaminos 4. Mexican Society's Attitude Towards Migrants in a Crisis Context Elena Sánchez-Montijano and Gerardo Maldonado 5. What do Mexicans Think about Newcomers? A Qualitative Analysis of Immigrant Local Perceptions Karla Valenzuela-Moreno and Marilyn G. Román Bejarano 6. Migration and Local Integration. An Experience from the Mexican Southern Border Martha Luz Rojas-Wiesner 7. Refugees in Tijuana: A Case-study on the Changing Landscape on Asylum and Migration in Mexico Rodolfo Cruz Piñeiro and Carlos Ibarra 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 Integration Processes for People in Contexts of Human Mobility Adriana González-Arias 10. Facing the New Challenges of Migration through the Promotion of Local Integration in Western and Northern States of Mexico Karina Arias and Iliana Martínez Hernández