¿Digno retorno? De la ciudadanía cultural a la ciudadanía truncada en el retorno a México

Authors

• Nancy Plankey-Videla
• Luz E. Herrera, Texas A&M University School of LawFollow

Document Type

Book Section

Publication Date

9-2026

ISBN

978-607-580-265-7

Abstract

The chapter revisits citizenship by drawing on the findings of the Mexican Reintegration Project that interviewed 333 Mexicans that the U.S. deported or who returned to Mexico, and 18 civil society organizations that were part of the study. Many Mexicans in the United States experience a form of belonging, or cultural citizenship, even while being monitored by immigration and law enforcement. Upon returning to Mexico —whether forcibly or “voluntarily” - they experience a truncated citizenship that also complicates their sense of belonging to their own country of origin. They often do not have all the documentation needed to prove their nationality and encounter a truncated citizenship resulting from a lack of services during repatriation and difficulties in obtaining the voter ID card, which is required for all official procedures in the country. Our concept of truncated citizenship refers to deported and returned individuals who experience a form of Mexican citizenship lacking full rights due to the absence of formal identification. Without the necessary documents to establish themselves as Mexicans on Mexican soil, these deportees and returnees remain in a state of limbo. This chapter discusses the crucial role of civil society organizations play in supporting them by helping them restore a sense of cultural citizenship until they can establish their Mexican citizenship.

First Page

161

Last Page

188

Num Pages

28

Publisher

Universidad de Guanajuato

Rights

CC BY-NC-ND

Editor

Miguel Vilches Hinojosa & Luis Rodolfo Morán Quiroz

Book Title

Ciudadanías móviles y políticas migratorias en la permacrisis

Recommended Citation

Nancy Plankey-Videla & Luz E. Herrera, ¿Digno retorno? De la ciudadanía cultural a la ciudadanía truncada en el retorno a México, in Ciudadanías móviles y políticas migratorias en la permacrisis 161 (Miguel Vilches Hinojosa & Luis Rodolfo Morán Quiroz eds., 2026).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/2452

File Type

PDF