Transnational family dynamics in Tonatico, Estado de Mexico

Resumen

This paper analyzes the construction of collective imaginary formed due remittances (monetary, social and cultural) and the effect they have on new migration in the locality of Tonatico, Estado de Mexico. The immigration history of this locality is the oldest in the state and currently has nearly half of its population residing in the United States; circumstances that have favored the formation of transnational families that create and recreate a permanent circuit of people, goods, cultural and symbolic, between this and that country.