Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies
Volume 6, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 60-84

From Nuevo Léon to the USA and back again: Transnational students in Mexico (Article)

Hamann E.T.* , Zúñiga V. , García J.S.
  • a Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 44B Henzlik Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588-0355, United States
  • b Division de Educacion y Humanidades, Universidad de Monterrey, Av. Morones Prieto 4500 Pte., 66238 San Pedro, NL, Mexico
  • c Escuela Normal Miguel F. Martinez, C.P. 64000, 2680 Monterrey, NL, Mexico

Abstract

The movement of Mexicans to the United States is both longstanding and long studied and from that study we know that for many newcomers the attachment to the receiving community is fraught and tentative. The experience of immigrant children in U.S. schools is also relatively well studied and reveals challenges of intercultural communication as well as concurrent and contradictory features of welcome and unwelcome. What is less well known, in the study of migration generally and of transnational students in particular, is how students moving in a less common direction - from the U.S. to Mexico - experience that movement. Based on visits to 173 randomly selected classrooms in the state of Nuevo Leon Mexico, this study shares survey and interview data from 208 of the 242 students encountered who had previous experience attending school in the United States. © 2008 by The Haworth Press. All rights reserved.

Author Keywords

Immigrant students Nuevo Leon Reverse migration Mexican education Transnational students U.S. education

Index Keywords

international migration education Mexico [North America] migrants experience population migration United States student Nuevo Leon North America immigrant population
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-65749206950&doi=10.1080%2f15362940802119245&partnerID=40&md5=326b3914fb5e83dd757b4cc7ff710bda
DOI: 10.1080/15362940802119245
ISSN: 15562948
Cited by: 7
Original Language: English