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Alcocer-Berriozabal, Mary. "The Structure and Development of the American Expatriate Community in Mexico City Since World War II," American Studies, University of Kansas, July 2000.
This dissertation deals with a series of questions about the American community abroad. One objective of this study is to analyze both the general context of American migration within the scope of world-wide emigration and the particularities of the American emigration to Mexico City in the post-World War II period. Today, Mexico represents the country as the single largest group American expatriates choose to reside. Besides the obvious geographic/physical proximity of the two countries and the attractive climatological aspects, there are also cultural, economic and social contextual reasons that have existed in the United States-and in Mexico-during the decades following World War II. These reasons are discussed in the present work. The research is based on an interdisciplinary analysis which addresses simultaneously the extensive issue of Americans abroad and focuses on Americans living in Mexico City. It addresses issues in diverse fields mainly, American social history, American foreign relations, organizational business history, history of Mexico, Mexican foreign relations, sociological theories on migration, assimilation, and adaptation, as well as ethnographical research methods-that have played a relevant role into the construction of the study of Americans abroad throughout the last fifty years. Special interest is given to an interdisciplinary ethnographic study. The results of the research reflect that Americans go to Mexico based on two assumptions: financial benefits and the fulfillment of an adventurous experience. In general, those that stay longer than two years obtain a degree of assimilation into the Mexican culture and take a high degree of pride in what the American community has achieved in Mexico City. Americans abroad never truly cut their ties with their homeland.
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