Revista Generación: Mexican Regionalism and Migration in Tijuana and Chicago

Abstract

In the United States, migration affects ethnic/racial identity politics, but it translates differently for Mexico, where not ethnic but regional identity is affected by emigration to the United States. The history of centralism has shaped how northern Mexicans have formed their identity in respect to Mexico City and the United States. Migration aggravates these tensions between northern Mexico and Mexico City. This article analyzes several cultural representations of migration within two issues of Revista Generacion, a literary and cultural magazine published in Mexico City, which is distributed nationally. The objective of this article is to see how migration and the emigrant population figure within the Mexican cultural imaginary.