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This study analyzes whether two types of international population mobility, international migration and cross-border mobility, influenced the intensity of maternal mortality at the municipal level in a border region beween Mexico and Guatemala for the period 2010-2015. The plausibility of such an impact stems from the social nature of maternal deaths as outlined in the framework on the social determinants of maternal mortality. Empirical evidence shows that, among women residing in international mobility contexts, both mobilities generate mixed effects on their exposure to the determinants of this cause of death. International migration theories attribute such effects to the connections both mobilitites construct and sustain between populations residing in different countries. Negative binomial regression models demonstrate an inverse relationship between 2010-2015 municipal mortality rates and the prevalence of international migration and cross-border mobility in the municipalites where the women who died of maternal causes habitually resided during this period. This relationship remains when controlling for other determinants of maternal mortality expressed at the municipal level. Simulations suggest that this impact pertains primarily to municipalities where the structural determinants of maternal mortality are most intense. Therefore, both mobilities seem to mitigate the effects of the strutural context on maternal death.

As a result of the return of hundreds of families during the last two five-year periods, minors returned who have found themselves in the need of adopting new cultural and socio-economic conditions in their communities. In the present work an analysis of children and teenangers (population 0 to 17 years of age), with American nationality and Mexican parents who currently reside in Mexico is carried out. To contextualize this population group, a sociodemographic study is carried out in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico; through which it is intended to give visibility to this segment of the population  generating sociodemographic exploratory data of their current situation. Using a mixed methodology in a first section, data from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography are used, specifically the last Population and Housing Census and the Intercensal Survey 2015 to identify this segment of the population and generate quantitative information for the case of the Estate of  Hidalgo; To complement the information collected, 10 minors with US citizenship are analyzed and Mexican parents who currently reside in Mexico, specifically in the municipality of Huasca de Ocampo, Hidalgo

Nuevo Leon, Mexico, has historically been a pole of attraction of population in the national scope, the growth registered in this geographic space of the last thirty years, is product in large part by the processes of immigration, encouraged by the economic growth of the sector industrial and services. The objective of this research is to account for the reasons why people decided to come to Nuevo León to stay, to know the life cycle at the time of migration, their education, as well as their integration into the labor market in NL, The social factors that allowed mobility and permanence in the state. In this article we will present the life stories of twelve migrants who came to Nuevo Leon from different states of Mexico from 1970 to 2015. One of the main findings of this research is that migration and its process is linked to the life cycle of each, but is crossed by family ties that allow support networks to be given so that migrants can successfully link society. On the other hand, among the interviewees it is observed that education has been an important factor in access to better jobs and better salaries.

This paper analyzes the immigration policies to developement in Brazil based on migrations flows of Haitians, which has been the largest received in a hundred years and with the greatest demands of immigration policies. It is a theoretical, bibliographical and documentary research, with analysis of the main studies on Haitian immigration in Brazil and the main legislation undertaken from it, weaving comparisons with the Statute of the Foreigner, Law that regulated immigration from the 1980s until November 2017. The results of the research indicate that the public policies are still very incipient, being still predominant an absence of the State in relation to the field of the migrations. The ineffectiveness of migration policies and their limits are observable in the processes of regularization of documentation as the only operative measure in relation to immigration, with emphasis on approval of Normative No. 97 of 2012, which granted the humanitarian visa, is unaffected. Until the year 2017 there were no significant policies and so that year was an important event for the construction of an immigration policy with the approval of the New Law on Migration.

Since the 1970s, population policy in Mexico aims to address demographic phenomena behavior such as migration, as well as aspects associated with them, including poverty and marginalization. Efforts have focused on addressing issues considered as core to guide population demographic behavior towards a desirable scenario. The ultimate goal is to improve living conditions and reduce the pressure posed by population growth demands. On the other hand, one of the central objectives of current public practice involves citizen participation on public policies design. There is therefore a relationship between population policy design itself and electoral participation, understood as a primary mechanism for citizen participation. Wich is expressed in various forms and intensities, according to the social and demographic population characteristics. Thus, having as its scope of study the municipalities of the state of Hidalgo, this paper explores the relationship between electoral participation and some of the main socio-demographic characteristics of the population, seeking to contribute giving elements for reflection on Mexican demographic policy.

This article has three basic objectives: one, to analyze the simultaneous articulation - origin-destination of migrants from Mexicans to the United States; second, to recognize in both countries the causes of their return migration to Mexico between 2009-2014, as well as to describe the socio-demographic characteristics of Mexican migrants according to the region of articulation beyond the borders; third, propose general lines of public policy that place in the center the integration and / or reintegration of the return of migrants. This is a reflection supported by quantitative and recent information, available in several sources, which is presented here to indicate the trends currently presented by the return migration from the United States to Mexico.

Desde su concepción, la migración es un proceso dinámico, como dice Arango[1] (2003) las migraciones son una “realidad rápidamente cambiante”, lo que significa que evolucionan, mutan y se transforman, por ende, las preocupaciones en torno a la materia van cambiando con ellas, por eso es importante comprender tanto sus antecedentes teóricos, empíricos y metodológicos como estar actualizados en el análisis de los flujos migratorios en el contexto actual. Además, hay que tener presente que el migrante es el sujeto principal de esta evolución, es quien ha ido respondiendo a las transformaciones de una realidad social, política y económica: local, regional e internacional, que la final se ve reflejado en patrones y comportamientos del sistema migratorio.   [1] Arango, Joaquín, 2003, La explicación teórica de las migraciones: luz y sombra en Migración y Desarrollo, No. 001, Zacatecas, México.

The aim of this document is to study returned migrants in Mexico, analyzing their motivations for this homecoming. The above, to have an approach of the presence of social networks that may be acting as facilitators of this process. This will be carried out through the analysis of the results of the 2010 Population and Housing Census, The Intercensal Survey 2015 and the National Survey of Demographic Dynamics 2014.

On the academic literature in the field, it has been argued that nation states have a double boundary: the first that refers to the right of states to refuse, admit or expel people; and the second one, which is internal, where states decide who of the people residing in its borders enjoy access to social, economic and political benefits, that is, it demarcates the exclusion or inclusion of citizen rights. However, this paper proposes the idea of a third frontier that implies that even enjoying the citizen rights, the conditions of economic and social exclusion can continue, since the immigrant’s stigma does not stop after the acquisition of nationality. The objective of this paper is to contrast these approaches empirically for the Spanish case.

El estudio de las migraciones internacionales en tiempos de globalización del capitalismo, requiere de comprensiones teóricas, analíticas y metodológicas que articulen las dimensiones locales y nacionales con la dimensión transnacional, contexto en el que se definen explicaciones, reflexiones, conceptos y nuevas categorías para el análisis. La complejidad de los destinos y del proceso de la movilidad humana de cerca de 245 millones de inmigrantes en 2016, reconfigura, de acuerdo a los países expulsores y receptores de población, nuevos contextos geopolíticos y económicos con importantes flujos migratorios que interactúan con las lógicas de la producción global, con la movilidad del capital, el mercado laboral, los salarios, el consumo, la familia y los derechos de los trabajadores migratorios.