IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sek/jijoss/v9y2020i1p113-131.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Sleeping On The Streets: A Perspective Of Migration In The Border Of Reynosa Tamaulipas, Mexico

Author

Listed:
  • Cynthia Marisol Vargas Orozco

    (Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas)

Abstract

This exploratory study describes the main problems that the migrants face when sleeping and living in the streets of Reynosa, Tamaulipas. In order to make visible the living conditions of migrants in street situation once they have been deported or have arrived in the city looking to cross into the United States, an interview was structured and 8 people were found in the streets near the international bridge Reynosa-Hidalgo and near the lodging houses for migrants. As a result, the number of migrants arriving in the city exceeds the capacity of the assistance houses to accommodate all migrants who need it, as well as the intention of the people to return to the United States and the lack of economic resources to pay again to cross illegally or return to their places of origin. This situation results in migrants sleeping on the streets, alleys and makeshift houses, exposing themselves to aggressions by structural elements of the State and local criminal groups.

Suggested Citation

  • Cynthia Marisol Vargas Orozco, 2020. "Sleeping On The Streets: A Perspective Of Migration In The Border Of Reynosa Tamaulipas, Mexico," International Journal of Social Sciences, International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences, vol. 9(1), pages 113-131, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sek:jijoss:v:9:y:2020:i:1:p:113-131
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-25585
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-social-sciences/publication-detail-25585?download=7
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    migration; border; homeless; sleeping on the streets;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • K21 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - Antitrust Law
    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sek:jijoss:v:9:y:2020:i:1:p:113-131. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Klara Cermakova (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://ijoss.iises.net/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.