TY - JOUR
T1 - The Role of Mexican Immigrants in the United States on the Imagined and Invented Traditions in Mexico’s Regional Cities
AU - Makino, Fuyuki
AU - Hirai, Shinji
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was funded by MEXT/JSPS KAKENHI (Grant Number: 18K01199).
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2019.
PY - 2019/5/1
Y1 - 2019/5/1
N2 - Mexican immigrants who move to the United States exert great influence on the reproduction of tradition in regional Mexican cities. This study examined the “changes in vistas” that appear due to the frequent migration that connects global cities with sending societies. The emphasis here is on the realities in which residents upgrade their living spaces using traditionality with their own unique strategies (posttraditional vistas), despite social and financial restrictions. Employing ethnographic methods and measurement surveys of housing, this study focused on Jalostotitlán, Jalisco, Mexico. It was found that changes in the vista of Jalostotitlán have not resulted from the unidirectional impact of people, goods, and money flowing from global cities; rather, they have arisen from the bidirectional relationship between immigrants and their hometowns. This research helps to depict another factor for discussions of the global migration narrative by placing regional cities at the core.
AB - Mexican immigrants who move to the United States exert great influence on the reproduction of tradition in regional Mexican cities. This study examined the “changes in vistas” that appear due to the frequent migration that connects global cities with sending societies. The emphasis here is on the realities in which residents upgrade their living spaces using traditionality with their own unique strategies (posttraditional vistas), despite social and financial restrictions. Employing ethnographic methods and measurement surveys of housing, this study focused on Jalostotitlán, Jalisco, Mexico. It was found that changes in the vista of Jalostotitlán have not resulted from the unidirectional impact of people, goods, and money flowing from global cities; rather, they have arisen from the bidirectional relationship between immigrants and their hometowns. This research helps to depict another factor for discussions of the global migration narrative by placing regional cities at the core.
KW - imagined traditions
KW - invented traditions
KW - Mexican migrants
KW - posttraditional vistas
KW - sending society
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U2 - 10.1177/0739986319843510
DO - 10.1177/0739986319843510
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85064888983
SN - 0739-9863
VL - 41
SP - 197
EP - 213
JO - Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences
JF - Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences
IS - 2
ER -
