Abstract

BARRIOS DE LA O., María Inés  and  CRUZ TERRAZAS, Kathia Cristina. Hardening of the Mexico-United States border and its impact on the remittances reception. The case of Ciudad Juárez in the context of Covid-19. Nóesis, Rev. cienc. soc. [online]. 2022, vol.31, n.61, pp.47-67.  Epub Aug 22, 2022. ISSN 2395-8669.  https://doi.org/10.20983/noesis.2022.1.3.

This article´s objective was to determine the impact of the hardening of the Mexico-United States border, particularly by the partial closure of the border due to Covid-19 -the migrant’s conglomeration in the city and the limitation of cross-border mobility- in the reception of remittances in Ciudad Juárez. Applying linear regression model with ordinary least squares method and the Pearson and Spearman correlation analysis, we estimated the relationship between remittances with the number of border crossings and immigrant’s concentration in the city. The results show that the only statistically significant variable was the partial closure of the border, through a decrease in the number of crossings, which has a negative relationship with the receipt of remittances in the locality, i.e., the fewer the number of crossings, the greater the receipt of remittances.

Keywords : Hardening of the border; remittances; Covid-19; Mexico-United States; Ciudad Juárez.