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JARDON HERNANDEZ, Ana Elizabeth. “Return is the reason of our migration” Changing perceptions about return in the experience of migrants in the Estado de Mexico. Entrediversidades rev. cienc. soc. humanid. [online]. 2022, vol.9, n.1, pp.200-222.  Epub 15-Mar-2023. ISSN 2007-7610.  https://doi.org/10.31644/ed.v9.n1.2022.a08.

The study of return migration from Mexicans at the United States has become more important since the international economic crisis of 2008. Different theoretical approches explain return, nevertheless, this article ponders on the conceptual proposal of the “mobilities of return” to explain and better understand the complexity of the process, as well as its meanings for migrants living the dialectic process of being “here in there” and there in here”. Using qualitative methodology, three cases are presented to explain return as a constantly repositioning project under the circumstances, particularities, and the contexts that Mexican migrant people are facing. Their expressions shift between the real, imaginary, virtual, desired, forced and denied.

Palavras-chave : return mobilities; imaginaries on proyects of migration and return; return as an aspiration; United States-Mexico.