Abstract
More than half a million young people who have spent a significant portion of their childhood in the United States now live in Mexico. Although family reunification is the prevailing reason for an individual to return to Mexico, a growing population of returnees return to access higher education opportunities. Using qualitative methods, the author provides a case study of an engaged student and immigrant activist living in North Carolina who, upon realizing he was able to attend neither a 4-year university nor the local 2-year community college, asserted his agency by returning to his home state of Veracruz, Mexico, in pursuit of a university education. This paper examines the political and educational barriers that precipitated his return to Mexico, as well as the challenges faced when re-acculturating to his birth country. Highlighted throughout the findings are the ways in which neoliberalism has constructed an inequitable and alienating transnational space for immigrant youth.
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