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Offshore Migrant Workers: Return Migrants in Mexico’s English-Speaking Call Centers

Michaël Da Cruz
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences January 2018, 4 (1) 39-57; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.1.03
Michaël Da Cruz
aPostdoctoral fellow at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana, Mexico
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vol. 4 no. 1 39-57
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.1.03

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2377-8253
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  • Published online January 1, 2018.

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© 2018 Russell Sage Foundation. Da Cruz, Michaël. 2018. “Offshore Migrant Workers: Return Migrants in Mexico’s English-Speaking Call Centers.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 4(1): 39–57. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.1.03. Direct correspondence to: Michaël Da Cruz at dacruz.michael@gmail.com, Departamento de Estudios Culturales, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Carretera escénica Tijuana, Ensenada, Km 18.5, San Antonio del Mar, 22560 Tijuana, Baja California, México. 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.

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  1. Michaël Da Cruza
  1. aPostdoctoral fellow at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana, Mexico
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    Michaël Da Cruz, (dacruz.michael{at}gmail.com)
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    • Abstract
    • THE LABOR MARKET INCORPORATION OF RETURN MIGRANTS
    • THE MEXICAN 1.5 GENERATION IN THE UNITED STATES AND THEIR RETURN TO MEXICO
    • OFFSHORE CALL CENTERS IN MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA: NEITHER ETHNIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP NOR PLANNED MIGRANT ECONOMIC NICHES
    • RESEARCH SAMPLE
    • “THIS IS MY COUNTRY AND I DON’T EVEN KNOW IT!”: ADJUSTING EXPECTATIONS AND PREPARING TO LOOK FOR WORK IN MEXICO
    • THE INVISIBLE DIMENSION OF CALL CENTER WORK
    • THE EMERGENCE OF A LITTLE UNITED STATES IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING MEXICAN CALL CENTERS
    • MORE THAN A LANGUAGE: MASTERING THE GRAMMAR OF CULTURAL CODES
    • OUTSIDERS AMONG THE OUTSIDERS: RETURNEES WHO EMIGRATED AS ADULTS
    • FINDING AN ECONOMIC NICHE IN OFFSHORE CALL CENTERS
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