Abstract

CARRILLO, Eduardo. School Expulsion in Mexico as Seen from the Political Sociology of International Migration. CONfines relacion. internaci. ciencia política [online]. 2023, vol.19, n.36, pp.49-71.  Epub May 03, 2024. ISSN 1870-3569.  https://doi.org/10.46530/cf.vi36/cnfns.n36.p49-71.

This article presents a route to study the school exclusion of returned Mexican and U.S. born children in Mexico using analytical notions from the political sociology of international migration. The analysis focuses on bureaucratic practices of exclusion, legal entanglements associated with children’s legal identity and informal decisions by authorities that produce fragmented trajectories in primary and secondary schools. Through interviews with mothers from Jalisco, Morelos, Nayarit and Sonora, it was possible to identify that the beginning, continuation and completion of compulsory schooling is still conditioned by the Unique Population Registry Code (CURP in Spanish) and that the consequences of not having it produce unfavorable results in the education of international migrant children in Mexico such as non-entry, school lag and, in the case of binational minors, returning to the United States to continue studies or to start their work trajectory.

Keywords : school exclusion; migrant children; international migration; Mexico-United States; political sociology.

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