Bringing Remittances into the North American Economic-Integration Project

This chapter charts the evolution of Mexican state-led transnationalism from the 1980s to the present and identifies its increasing convergence with U.S. government policies in the furtherance of North American economic integration. The chapter develops a distinction between emigrant policies and emigration policies pursued by the Mexican government over these three decades. New light is shed on the policy content and dynamics driving state-led transnationalism. The chapter demonstrates that the contemporary state-led transnationalism policies being pursued by the Mexican government have taken on a market-centric tint. And it shows that the form of state-led transnationalism being pursued by the Mexican government involves significant intergovernmental collaboration with agencies and government officials from the United States.