Urgent Returns: The Link Between Family and the Remigration Intentions of Deported Central Americans in an Era of Border Externalization

Ángel A. Escamilla García; Adriana M. Cerón

doi:10.7758/RSF.2025.11.4.09

Article Information

vol. 11 no. 4 196-216

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2025.11.4.09

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online December 4, 2025.

© 2025 Russell Sage Foundation. Escamilla García, Ángel A., and Adriana M. Cerón. 2025. “Urgent Returns: The Link Between Family and the Remigration Intentions of Deported Central Americans in an Era of Border Externalization.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 11(4): 196–216. https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2025.11.4.09. This research was supported by the Qualitative and Interpretive Research Institute at the Cornell Center for Social Sciences, the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University, and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (DGE-2139841). We are grateful to Caitlin Patler, Bradford Jones, Suzanne Nichols, and the anonymous reviewers at the Russell Sage Foundation for their valuable feedback and support. We are especially grateful to the participants, whose stories are reflected in this paper. Direct correspondence to: Ángel A. Escamilla García, at angel.escamillagarcia{at}yale.edu, Department of Sociology, 493 College Street, New Haven, CT 06511, United States. Adriana M. Cerón, at adriana.ceron{at}yale.edu, Department of Sociology, 493 College Street, New Haven, CT 06511, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.