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. Hamilton, and Nicole Denier examine the experiences of returned migrants in Mexico City, one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world.

Drawing on interviews with former U.S. migrants living in Mexico City, The Returned is an illuminating account of the experience of migration to the United States followed by return to Mexico City. The book reveals how those two experiences of migration are indelibly intertwined, with lasting consequences for migrants and their families