Intente links en:Similares en:
The meanings and educational consequences of this trans-nationalism have not been studied or evaluated much in Mexico. Nor is there much research yet on what can be learned about U.S. schooling considering the educational experiences of students previously enrolled in the United States who are now attending elementary or middle schools in Mexico. This article starts to correct these gaps by sharing results from the first phase of a research project titled "International Migration, School Trajectories, and Poverty." The first phase has focused on tallying the number of Mexican students in the state of Nuevo León who have transnational educational biographies—i.e., they have also attended school outside of Mexico, typically in the U.S.—and then describing the opportunities and obstacles they have encountered as transnational students. Based on on-site visits to 174 schools in the State of Nuevo León during the autumn of 2004, it was projected that for 2004-2005 school period elementary and middle schools in Nuevo León enrolled an estimated of 10,000 students who had educational background in U.S. schools. Some of those transnational students were clearly struggling academically in Mexico; some claimed to prefer U.S. schools; others were faring well in their Mexican education.