Mixtec transnational migration

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Mixtec transnational migration is the phenomenon in which Mixtec people have migrated between Mexico and the United States for over three generations.

The Mixtec people are an example of a social group in which migration had not led to a loss of cultural identity, but has rather generated territorial expansion and cultural reaffirmation.

Mixtecs have migrated to various parts of both Mexico and United States. In recent years^[when?] they, along with Zapotecs and Triqui, have emerged as one of the largest groups of migrants in the United States. Large Mixtec communities exist in the border cities of Tijuana and San Diego. According to statistics compiled by the National Geographic and Statistical Institute, out of the 241,080 Indigenous people living in the border cities, 72,000 (30 percent) are migrants.^[1] As of 2011^[update], an estimated 150,000 Mixteco people were living in California, and 25,000 to 30,000 in New York City.^[2]

The migration of Indigenous populations to various cities of the United States constitutes an important source of income for the Mixtec, who have a long tradition of migration and are the most numerous in the United States according to the Mixtec Integrated Development Program. The remittances sent between 1984 and 1988 amounted to $2,000 million pesos annually. Mixtec communities are generally described as transnational and transborder because of their ability to maintain and reaffirm social ties between their native homeland and diasporic community.^[3] For more than two decades, anthropologists have documented people who move from one country to another and who build transnational links.