ABSTRACT
There is a significant emigration of Americans to Mexico that remains largely outside the United States (US)–Mexico border discourse. These migrants are often seniors seeking cheaper care, specifically health-care services, as well as more informal modalities of care like ease of living during retirement. With the anticipated spike in aging and comparatively expensive health-care services in the US, this trend of transnational care could become the new American norm. This chapter outlines three distinct geographies in Mexico—the border, coasts, and colonial cities—and examines how older migrants, both rich and poor, have contributed to the development of uniquely uneven urban typologies. Analyses engage with post-colonial histories, historical usufruct land use patterns, and specialized urbanizations. Altogether, these migrations and their resultant spatializations reveal the network of vulnerable agents living within current neoliberal paradigms of health and wellness and subsequently asks how else such practices might transcend the border, once and for all?
