ABSTRACT
Approximately two million Mexicans returned to Mexico between 2005 and 2018. Most of them, the generation 1.5, were socialized in U.S. schools and had English as their dominant language. On both sides of the border, they have to struggle and manage linguistic and identity ambiguities to be able to adapt to their context. This chapter presents an in-depth analysis of two Mexican migrants, Ana in New York and Javier in Guadalajara, who break down dualistic hegemonic paradigms that impose culturally determined roles that make them feel rejected. This work analyzes, through Gloria Anzaldúa’s framework, how Ana and Javier defy the pre-established norms of their immediate contexts and how they create their own mundo zurdo by creating their own definitions of what it means for them to be Mexicans on both sides of the border.
