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According to the report, Mexican mobility to the United States presents a dominant rebound above migrants of other nationalities and the “accelerated expansion of new flows” such as entire families.
Mexicans now migrate to the United States as a family
According to statements cited by UNAM, The mobility of Mexicans as a family surpassed other modalities, such as that of single adults. This is according to monthly figures presented by Tonatiuh Guillén López, researcher and also former commissioner of the National Migration Institute, which indicate that, while in October 2017 approximately 1,000 Mexican people grouped in families were registered on the southern border of the United States, In July 2022 they exceeded 5,000.
The same report states that later, In November and December 2023, the number of family migrants almost reached 40,000, even above the number of adults who migrated alone, which was around 29,000.
Likewise, in his presentation in the auditorium of the Center for Complexity Sciences, Guillén explained that since April 2021 the number of migrants heading towards the southern border from the United States, coming from countries like Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, has also increased.
In the case of Cuba, a peak occurred from December 2022 to January 2023 when around 43,000 migrants were registered. Likewise, in that same period, the number of migrants from Nicaragua reached 35,000 and from Venezuela, in August 2023, it reached approximately 66,000, said Guillén.
The classification of periods of regional mobility to the United States, according to an expert
At the academic meeting, titled “You have an APPOINTMENT Science, Innovation, Technology, Academia at C3 with the Mexican Academy of Sciences”, moderated by Julia Tagüeña Parga, emeritus researcher at the Renewable Energy InstituteGuillén López made a classification of periods of regional mobility to the United States.
He located 2008 and previous years as the “Classic Era”, where Mexican migration was practically the only one that ventured to the United States, in addition to having as its characteristic the composition of flows of single adults.
The so-called “Central American Era (2009-2020)” followed. in which there was a decline in Mexican mobility and expansion of the Central American flow and its predominance.
Finally, the current “Post-COVID Era (2021-2024)”, which presents the rebound in Mexican migration and the relative growth of the flow of Central American nations, where the dominant social composition is refugee seekers.
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