In the first two decades of the 21st century, more than two
million Mexican migrants returned to Mexico from the United
States. Between 2010 and 2020, the number of people who returned
to Mexico was so large that, for the first time in at least fifty
years, more people entered Mexico from the United States than
entered the United States from Mexico. Many of these migrants
were destined for urban areas, and we know little about how they
fare after they return to cities. In The Returned,
sociologists Claudia Masferrer, Erin R.
